Hi, >On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:24, Ulrich Teichert wrote: >> after using the correct daily netboot image: >> cdimage.d.o:/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/20070103-2/powerpc/iso-cd/deb >>ian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso > >That is not a netboot image... >The netboot image is: >http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/daily/prep/netboot/
I know. I've installed almost *all* my netboot-only boxes this way - for me and for everybody who has a slow network connection this is only way for painless installs, IMHO. >> Now, to the details: >> booted the initrd-image from the CD over tftp with: >> `boot net:<server-ip>,vmlinuz-prep.initrd,<client-ip>` > >I'm not sure that we want to support booting a CD image over the network. >The real netboot method and the hd-media method are valid alternatives. There is almost nothing to do to support this. >> I've checked the manual and the net booting instruction for prep is >> missing the "net:" string before the server IP address. `help boot` >> would also be good to list, this gives a lot more information about >> what is possible. > >The manual will be frozen for the Etch release at the end of this week. If >something needs to go in, a bug report with a patch will need to be filed >very soon by someone from powerpc community. I see what I can do, are the svn-checkout instructions on the web valid? >> Booting from the CD-ROM did not work and I didn't expected it would - >> no big deal, IMHO, as long as it's noted in the manual. I've just >> checked and prep is listed under supported architectures for CD-ROM >> booting. If Powerstacks could be simply excluded there, this would be >> appreciated. > >If booting of CD is not supported, I'd just as soon remove support for >prep from CD images. The powerpc CDs are already very large because they >have multiple kernels and initrds. Removing the prep support would free >up some much needed space for regular packages. For the reason above, I like it like it is. It eases testing for me enourmously, let alone the install. I usually buy full CDs sets from an approved vendor (and include a donation to debian in the payment) and do the install as described. Please don't rule out everybody without (or with slow) network connections which do netboots on PPC. [del] >> Partitioning: I first goofed totally because my prep-boot partition was >[...] > >I've seen your bug report about this. This is going to need debugging by >someone from the powerpc community. I fear so. The box will be available for test installs until etch is released, BTW. Please disregard my previous description in the mail, the bug report is much more accurate. >> Reboot: I've used `boot disk` to get into the mkvmlinuz boot loader. >> The initial reboot from disk did not work, because the kernel option >> root=3D/dev/sda2 (in my case) was missing. As soon as I've added this to >> the options listed on the mkvmlinuz boot prompt, disk booting >> succeeded. > >This one is simpler to fix. Good to hear. >Thanks for your testing and glad to hear you managed a successful install. No problem, I'm glad that I can give something back to debian now that I have some free time. I will test other non-x86 platforms, I just started with PPC by chance ;-) CU, Uli -- Dipl. Inf. Ulrich Teichert|e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stormweg 24 |listening to: Cauchemar (Opération S) 24539 Neumuenster, Germany|Good Looks, Big Deal (Sweatmaster) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]