It it me, or am I the only one that cares about netbooting an installer on powermac...
Pat On Monday 24 October 2005 00:20, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > After trying to figure out how to netboot the sarge installer on my > blue and white G3, I had to give up and use the woody installer > instead. > > The problems I ran into: > > 1) The install document says to use yaboot to boot the kernel. > There's no "yaboot" or yaboot.conf files in the installer > directory[1] for sarge. I ended up next trying to use yaboot from > woody's installer dir to boot. > > 2) There's a bunch of kernel+initrd images which don't boot > (vmlinuz-*.initrd), none of which are bootable on my blue&white. > Openfirmware pukes on the images. > > 3) There's a generic "vmlinux", which actually loads via yaboot, but > yaboot can't load the initrd.gz. > > 4) The 2.4 netboot images, and 2.4 netboot-minimal images have the > same problems. > > I wouldn't be suprised to see these problems on a testing release, > but I'm quite suprised that the *stable* release doesn't come with a > working netbootable installer, when the previous version did (and it > worked just fine!). > > [1] > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-powerpc/curre >nt/images/powerpc/netboot/ > > Pat > -- > Purdue University ITAP/RCAC --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/ > The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org -- Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]