Re: Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 07:51:06PM +0100, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: I have this old laptop laying around. Currently is has no CD drive and i'd hate to rely on floppies. It does have a working PCMCIA eth card and a minimal OpenBSD that sees my LAN. I can't access its BIOS and i doubt it has one... these laptops used to have the bios in a hdd partition and this one got a new drive a while ago. So, i'm kinda stranded on that but i doubt it supported PXE (my initial idea) anyway. The floppies i have laying around for the bios utilities are kinda corrupted and won't help much - creating a new bios partition would require unalocated diskspace anyway. Any suggestions for giving this laptop a bios would be appreciated. So then i decided maybe the bootloader could support PXE or some other form of booting, but i'm still searching for BSD stuff on that matter... I'm assuming that you can't boot a USB stick. The OpenBSD install floppy can give you a shell running OpenBSD in memory. From within that, you can probably get your network going. You should then be able to repartition the hard drive (using fdisk) to clear out the OpenBSD install. Then install debootstrap and run it. It should pull in a basic Debian system and install it on the drive. See the installation manual for the use of debootstrap (installing from another flavour of UNIX). You may want to dd a copy of grub-disk (its a debian package) that gives you a grub menu (editable) for booting an OS. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot
Hi, I have this old laptop laying around. Currently is has no CD drive and i'd hate to rely on floppies. It does have a working PCMCIA eth card and a minimal OpenBSD that sees my LAN. I can't access its BIOS and i doubt it has one... these laptops used to have the bios in a hdd partition and this one got a new drive a while ago. So, i'm kinda stranded on that but i doubt it supported PXE (my initial idea) anyway. The floppies i have laying around for the bios utilities are kinda corrupted and won't help much - creating a new bios partition would require unalocated diskspace anyway. Any suggestions for giving this laptop a bios would be appreciated. So then i decided maybe the bootloader could support PXE or some other form of booting, but i'm still searching for BSD stuff on that matter... Any suggestions? TIA, Nuno Magalhães -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot
form of booting, but i'm still searching for BSD stuff on that matter... I think i've narrowed it down to: Can the bsd bootloader boot a Debian installer image (pxe, netboot or otherwise)? -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot
I think i've narrowed it down to: Can the bsd bootloader boot a Debian installer image (pxe, netboot or otherwise)? And now i screwed it up to: Can grub on openbsd be configured to boot a BSD-kernel, since it's the only kernel the system has? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Installing on Compaq Armada 1500c - boot
And now i screwed it up to: Can grub on openbsd be configured to boot a BSD-kernel, since it's the only kernel the system has? Well if grub was preconfigured it would make it much easier, but this helped: find /bsd root (hd0,3,a) kernel --type=openbsd /bsd boot Now it complains boot is too old and i oughta upgrade... Maybe i can screw up the MBA by mounting this disk on an ide/usb thingy... maybe dd or some boot tools or maybe even running the installer... somehow... and pointing it to the (now) usb disk... Oh joy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
