Ok I am comming very close to being ready to innstall on my IPC. It is ina temporary spot (it will have to move ina few days when one of my familly members complains about where I put it...but it is out of the way enough for a few days ;) ) so the clock is ticking until it leaves the network again (not permanantly...just until I move out Sep 1)
anyway... can someone either describe or point me to a good resource for how to setup my i386 machine to serve the tftpboot image and get my sparc to like it? (also need to setup bootp for it I think) What is the magic dd line (I forgot) for padding the tftpboot.img to make sure the sparc likes it more? (also...is there any reaosn why the padded version hasn't just been uploaded? It would probably make life easier for everyone). I am not sure how the uploading of bootdisks and that tftpboot.img works... I would assume that it is not the same as uploading a package...since it is really not a deb file...so whoever does have rights to do it maybe should think about it ;) ok...back to my system (tho if you can't tell from those comments above I am anxious to compile my package for sparc and help porting others :) ) Any advice on how to partition? since I hafta do it from within SUNOS...I am partitioning a 1 gig drive...which I threw into an external case (I am going to make it internal and make the current internal hard drive (with SUN OS on it) external and keep SunOS) The standard SUNOS way of partitioning is sub-optimal...I mean really... 64 MB for / 128 swap...a little for "backup" and the rest in /usr I supose it works... I prefer (just for ease of use) to have just / and swap...I know it maximizes the posiblity of loosing everything but...thats ok.. im gonna prolly do backups to my tape drive through the network anyway thoughs? comments? I know I need to partition under SUNOS but do I need to format under it too? also...is anyone interested in making a debian-sparc web page? I noticed one doesn't exist (AFAIK if im wrong I would be happy to stand corrected) I would be happy to write one once I get my system working (I don't feel qualified before that) and hopefully documenting some of this stuff for everyone (to help new people get Linux on their Sun systems :) ) hmmm maybe even a debian-sparc logo? Take the debian logo...add a SUN logo inside it (of course I know it would require getting permission from SUN to use it...and thats probably not going to happen so...) ..hmm...maybe....oh well im no graphic artist... ill stick with getting my IPC working for now -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
