Re: New bootdisks and kernel packges

[Guido Guenther]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:59:36PM +0200, Mark Nellemann wrote:
> 
> I want to test the boot-floppies on the O2 r5K box I got on my table, 
> but ... I'm not sure how.
> 
> Is there a short guide on how to do this somewhere?
The "bootdisks" basically include a kernel image and a nfs-root-fs.
Untar the rootfs and setup bootp or dhcp to:
  a) fetch the kernel via tftp and 
  b) mount the nfs-root as rootfs
This should fire up the installer. Anyway I doubt that O2s are wrking
at all with mips32 kernels.
 -- Guido