Thiemo Seufer schrieb: > Joerg Mechnich wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> after I successfully installed Debian to my Indy's HD I decided that the >> disk was too noisy and I wanted to try to netboot the machine from my >> NSLU. After fiddling around with tftp I finally got it right, but it did >> not want to boot the ELF kernel. I checked with the file command, which >> format the Etch netinstall image was in and found out that it was in >> ECOFF format. I read in the Internets that you could produce an .ecoff >> kernel during compilation but that there was also a tool called >> elf2ecoff, which converts an existing kernel image. >> So I downloaded the source, compiled the executable, tried it, got an >> error and after having looked into the code, I noticed that it seems to >> handle only 32-bit elf files. >> I tried to fix it somehow but just got a bit further. >> >> So does anybody know about a way to do this or does it even work at all >> that way ? > > arcboot comes with the "tip22" which creates a tftp-able image from > kernel and initrd. That's also the technique used for the network > installer images, and for the CDROM boot. > > > Thiemo
I think this was just what I was looking for: apt-get install tip22 ;) I was so fixated on this ecoff stuff I did not search the packages more generally. Thanks A Lot! J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
