Mike Martin wrote: > I now have access to an SGI Octane and would like to get Debian running on it. > > I followed the Netboot instruction for the Indy and used the Gentoo > image from here: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/netboot/ip30/ip30-r10k+-20050530.img.bz2 > > It boots up perfectly. No issues. > > Can someone point me in the right direction for getting from here > (busybox shell) to getting the Debian installer going? > > Is there a Debian tftpboot.img I should/could be using? > > Once I've got this going, I'll write up a how-to. There doesn't seem > to be one right now!
The debian-installer currently doesn't support the Octane (some preliminary things have been done, but not more). OTOH, you did already most of the setup which is usually handles by debian-installer. To get a working debian installation, partition the disks (I think the gentoo image has fdisk), create and mount filesystems, and extract the big endian tarball from http://people.debian.org/~ths/chroot-tarballs/ into the mountpoint. Do a chroot and configure the basics like network and apt sources, 'base-config' should handle most of the rest. If you want to boot the system from disk, you will need Stanislaw's arcload (not packaged yet). You may also want to try a debian-style kernel, available for now from http://people.debian.org/~ths/mips-kernels/experimental but hopefully soon in the regular archive. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
