Hi all, during a few weeks I have an SGI O2, so I am trying a d-i installation.
The system is an IP32 with an R5000 CPU running at 200mhz, 128Mb of RAM, 2x2Gb SCSI disks, CRM rev C video card, SCSI CDROM. I selected a netboot installation and downloaded netboot-boot.img from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-mips/rc1/images/r5k-ip22/ for R5000 CPU. The dhcp/bootp server is an i386 machine with kernel 2.6.6. On that machine I downloaded the netboot-boot-img, saved it into /boot, and setup dhcpd as follows: host sgi { hardware ethernet 08:00:69:05:dc:0d; fixed-address 192.168.2.52; filename "/boot/netboot-boot.img"; option root-path "/dev/ram0"; } I did test the TFTP transfer with a different tftp client and it worked. then I switched on the mips machine, started the "command monitor" and issued the commands: > unsetenv netaddr > bootp(): Setting $netaddr to 192.168.2.52 (from server) Unable to execute bootp():: Invalid argument > bootp():/boot/netboot-boot.img root=/dev/ram0 Setting $netaddr to 192.168.2.52 (from server) Unable to execute bootp():/boot/netboot-boot.img: Invalid argument > but I did not manage to boot the machine. I did try even with the netboot-boot.img from the r4k-ip22 directory. Then I downloaded vmlinux64 version 2.6.1 from http://www.linux-mips.org/~glaurung/ and tried it but nothing changed. Do you have any hints on what to do or check in order to install debian on this machine? Thanks, Giuseppe
