On 04/20/2018 05:32 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > I have setup a small machine to test with. A very old netra type > unit. Should I assume that I can network boot the existing > debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso via tftp or is there a better install > image laying about?
There is a special installation image called "netboot" which is not to be confused with the standard NETINST image [1]. netboot images consist of a kernel and a special initrd with a debian-installer version specifically created for booting from TFTP. These images are part of the images set created when building debian-installer and can normally be downloaded from [2] and [3]. However, since the debian-installer images on the FTP servers are outdated for debian-ports (the kernels in those images are too old and are missing the kernel module packages because of mini-DAK vs. DAK yada yada), you have to build a fresh copy of debian-installer yourself with the kernel version in build/common bumped to the current Debian kernel ABI version number [4]. But to avoid you having to do all this work, you can just use the images I created some days ago to be able to build the current NETINST image (the tarball contains the initrds for both cdrom and netboot type images, the kernel is the same) [5]. Adrian > [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/sparc/ch02s04.html.en#idp5631184 > [2] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/ > [3] > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-sparc64/main/d/debian-installer/ > [4] > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/commit/?id=6ad2c7dfbc109a5b7216f0c92dc12d7b4b1659a3 > [5] https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/ -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
