Il Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:07:36PM +0000, The Fungi ha scritto: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:50:55PM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > 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. > [...] > > Do you have any hints on what to do or check in order to install debian > > on this machine? > > Did you try turning off path MTU discovery on the tftp server? > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc
yes I did. I read in the FAQ that this trick is required if tftpd is running on linux 2.4. I was using linux 2.6 but I gaveit a try and it was even worst since the sgi tftp client wasn't able do download the kernel. Thanks, Giuseppe
