Sorry about the bad subject line before. I did a reply in my mail client to get the quoting of the other message and forgot to change it.
"Rafael E. Herrera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doug Alcorn wrote: > > Staff Account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I've setup RARP and TFTP service on the network. You should be > > > able to boot off the network. However, it appears that Debian > > > defaults to using the on-board video if it finds it (yours has > > > one built in that can't be removed), and thus won't use the > > > actual console device (serial port). I took the liberty of also > > > downloading the > > I think it will default to the serial port if it doesn't find a > keyboard, so unplug the keyboard before turning your machine on. I'm pretty sure there is no keyboard plugged in. When I go through the openboot sequence on the console it reports that there is no keyboard. > > > > Now, I currently have the RARP/TFTP server setup to feed your > > > machines the Debian, boot image. But like I said, I don't think > > > that'll work (it didn't on two test machines I tried). I > > > recommend redhat (largely because it worked on my test). The > > > Debian boots that didn't work forced me to go power cycle the > > > machine-- it wouldn't even respond to BREAK's (CTRL-\ b). But > > > you're welcome to try. > > I used the Debian installation guide and another FAQ doc (I don't > remember which exactly) to set RARP/TFTP to boot my IPCs for > installation. It took a little work to figure out the MAC addresses and > the ftpt configuration, but eventually the instructions in the doc were > sufficient to get it going. My ISP was able to get this working. -- (__) Doug Alcorn (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lathi.net) oo / PGP 02B3 1E26 BCF2 9AAF 93F1 61D7 450C B264 3E63 D543 |_/ If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.