With the patches posted to debian-boot recently and the patch from #103813 to stop dhcp-client from segfaulting I was able to completely bootstrap a R4000 Indigo2 (big endian) by installing from nfs-root. This includes configuring the network via bootp, copying over the kernel and modules from rescue.bin and drivers.tgz, running debootstrap successfully as well as basic support for making the system bootable from harddisk. There are some small issues remaining: - although copying over drivers.tgz works the "Configuring device drivers and modules" step doesn't work properly(it completes successfully without ever showing a dialog box). - configuring the network manually freezes the installer since it looses it's nfs mounted root-fs(but bootp works). - the "Execute a shell step" does not work with serial console(characters typed are not shown, exit does not work). - cfdisk doesn't seem to be able to create sgi disklabels. Shall we switch to plain fdisk on mips? So maybe it's time for a first boot disk upload for mips? Regards, -- Guido
P.S.: Bootdisks are at: http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/linux-mips/debian/bootdisks/
