Stephen Zander wrote: > >>>>> "Kris" == Kris Boulez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kris> How does one go about installing this kernel on a virgin > Kris> disk (no linux yet). With other words: does someone has a > Kris> bootable image that I can use to install a complete > Kris> distribution from ? (I just got a second HD for my SS5/170 > Kris> and would like to install Linux on it). > > This relates specifically to Debian/sparc... > > You can get most of the way there following the boot-disk instruction. > The section on TFTP/NFS-root should explain things. The only catch, > however, is that the base system install won't be able to read > resc1440.bin r drv1440.bin as loopback devices aren't supported on NFS > mounted volumes. > > It's not terribly complicated to manually extract their contents but > I've completely forgotten how I did it... and my mirror seems to have > lost everything sparc related (*WTFIRFT*) so I can't recheck.
Hmm, latest boot floppies take care of this problem and copy the images to the local disk (under /target) if mounting them via loop device is not working (just ignore the I/O error message you could see on the installation screen: it is sent by the kernel in the first try, so I don't have a chance not to display it. However I catch the error, copy the image to the local disk, then remount it loopback). Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
