On Sun, 2003-08-03 17:49:39 +0200, Emanuel Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hello > > is it possible that sun4c (here a sparcstation 2) has a problem with too > big tftp-images? as one can find with google, there is no way to boot the > tftpboot.img's from debian on sun4c. so i tried to build some myself what > resulted in a working tftpboot.img as long as it was smaller than about > 3100000bytes. the one i use now is 3096258bytes, the image from woody is > 3161568bytes...
I've not (yet) installed my SS2, but it's quite possible. After all,
there are quite some low-memory machines for which the default ~10MB
initrd (of which only some singel MBs are used!) is simply too large.
Think of Amigas:)
MfG, JBG
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