Chad Feller wrote:
I got Debian running on an IP27 sibling to that box, an Origin 2000
(2200 actually). I had problems with TFTP at the time (for whatever
reason), and ended using a Gentoo MIPS live CD to get it to boot. From
there I chrooted, and bootstrapped Debian.
I posted the notes of the install here:
http://www.cs.unr.edu/~feller/linux/mips/ip27/debian_ip27.txt
Thanks, I'll follow that up in the morning (or whenever I've finished
the SPARC E4500 Lenny re-installation I'm currently doing).
I'm prepared to use Gentoo as a tool, but would say that when I tried to
install it on SPARC and PPC systems I found it extremely frustrating: it
turned out that they'd changed the initrd format but not the kernel that
was supposed to read it, had noted that as a bug, but had then fixed it
/only/ on x86. And that's why I still use Debian :-)
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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