* Joerg Rossdeutscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-11 20:16]: > Maybe this is correct and I've got to continue on then serial console?
Yes, sorry I wasn't clear about this. At this stage, you have to use the serial console. In a future version, we hope to support SSH, but that's still a few weeks away. > The reason for my question: None of my other machines can do a > 115.000bps connection, so I can't see something in my terminal > application (I heard about holding space while booting to > autodetect a lower speed, but that didn't work) I don't know how to change the serial setting on the RaQ. Maybe someone else does. > Other platforms and the woody installer had a kind of "minimal system" > on cd/nfs/filesystem to run the installer. But the cobalt stuff just > seems to contain initd, kernels and a bootloader. Where does it expect > the remaining stuff, and where do *I* get it? :-) The initrd contains a very minimal system with the capability to download the actual installer components. Those are distributed all over http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool. > 1. > The default.colo-file had "^M" linebreaks, I changed that with vi. > Maybe my Macintosh ftp-client did that. Yeah, my default.colo doesn't have such linebreaks. > 2. > It seems as if some files belonged to /boot, some to /nfsroot and some > to nfsroot/boot. After getting annoyed I just copied every file to > every folders, chown'ed them nobody:nogroup, chmod'ed them 666 (777 for > folders) due some unclear explained access restrictions in man tftp. Yeah, sorry. This depend on the exact machine you have. In my daily images (http://people.debian.org/~tbm/d-i/images/mipsel/daily/) I have a symlink from boot to . for exact that reason. Sorry I wasn't clear about this. The file mode should be 644, this is also safe. > 3. > The last time I played with woody the kernels name had to be > "vmlinux_RAQ.gz". The kernels on the debian server have other names. I > made a copy of this kernel with the name vmlinux_RAQ.gz just to be on > the safe site - I didn't even try if this is necessary. There's a file with that name at http://people.debian.org/~tbm/d-i/images/mipsel/daily/cobalt/netboot/ but I think I forgot to mention that, sorry. (Different Cobalt machines expect different names...) -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
