Hi Rod, On Thu, 2007 Aug 30 14:22:53 -0400, Rod Ross wrote: > > > 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 must point out, this is a laptop, so connecting a second IDE disk is not straightforward. (I'm not even sure how to get access to the first/only disk; there are no obvious access panels.) Thanks for the idea, however. > 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. I don't see why nubus-pmac shouldn't be able to support an NFS root--- the Ethernet device here is already supported, and that's the hardest part. Unfortunately, the kernel on the distributed images does not appear to have NFS-root support compiled in :( I may have to give tftpboot a try.... --Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users
