I think I was looking at outdated documentation. This sounds like it should work, I will let you know.
Thanks for the prompt reply. Ross > Le dimanche 22 mars 2009 à 10:48 -0500, Ross Gohlke a écrit : >> I also looked into netbooting, but documentation is inconsistent and I >> could not find netbootable binaries. > > I netbooted my powerbook to install Debian on it, and it went smoothly > (I already had an experience by netbooting some OpenWrt router ; I also > netbooted back my amd64 from my powerbook ... so I may be a bit more > experienced, but with some docs it goes ok) > > The files used to netboot lenny and the documentation can be found > here : > http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst#netboot > I set up dhcp3-server, tftpd-hpa, and can then netboot my PB. > > The hardest part was finding the correct way to configure some quirks of > Apple's way of netbooting. In the DHCP server config, you must specify > both next-server and server-identifier to the IP of your netboot server. > Also, setting a filename gets ignored by open-firmware's netbooting > code. So, the correct command to use when in OF on your PB : > > boot enet:0,yaboot > > This should be enough to get you running the debian installer. > > Don't hesitate to ask if you need some more details. > > Regards, > benjamin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > > -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
