Daniel Richard G. wrote: > On Thu, 2007 Aug 30 11:45:51 +0200, Florian Boelstler wrote: > >> I guess NFS-mounted root sounds good. >> Have done this with a newer embedded PPC board on Linux 2.6 recently. >> >> Have a look at http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/nfsroot.txt?v=2.4.28 >> > > Okay, that looks doable. > > Hi, If you have a second Hard Drive you could "dd if=/path/to/debian.iso of=/dev/hdb" or hda depending on which device is your non-boot HD. You will need a second HD and a ribbon and perhaps another computer with gnu/linux or dd installed to make the HD. Then you can use one HD to boot from and the other as the "fake" cdrom. You will have to mount the "fake" cdrom manually as the debian installer will not detect the hda or hdb as a cdrom drive so you will have to use the alt or apple key and the left or right arrow keys to get into a tty. Then it is just a matter of mount /dev/hdb onto the target directory. Then the install will proceed. I think the external scsi cdrom is another great idea Florian had. I do not know if nfs install will work with nubus. I use nfs on BSD with nubus all the time but not to install never tested it. And TFTP it is a firmware thing. I can do TFTP from my SGI, or even my (cube ) new world mac but on nubus-pmac not yet :) If you could boot a ramdisk image and it allows network install that would be the best. Ram disk would need network support etc. Cheers, Rod Ross
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