posted on how it goes.
Cheers,
Patrick
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr wrote:
Hi,
Netbooting iBook/PowerBook has always been strange to me, so here are my
advices :
Can anyone offer any guidance as to what files to
place in the tftpboot directory? We
Hi,
Netbooting iBook/PowerBook has always been strange to me, so here are my
advices :
Can anyone offer any guidance as to what files to
place in the tftpboot directory? We are assuming vmlinux, initrd.gz, yaboot,
yaboot.conf and boot.msg from
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny
to
my own and hopefully this should work on Thursday.
Thanks again for the suggestions, I'll keep everyone posted on how it goes.
Cheers,
Patrick
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr wrote:
Hi,
Netbooting iBook/PowerBook has always been strange to me, so here are my
don't have any firsthand experience with netbooting Macs, but this page has
some hints and example configuration files (which you probably have already
seen):
http://wiki.ppckernel.org/w/Mac_Netboot
From a quick look you seem to be on the right track. Do your dhcp/tftp logs
give you any hints
/xserve_g4_1.33_dp_cluster_node.html.
We are following this guide on the debian site
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch04s05.html.en
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch04s05.html.en.
Hi Patrick
I don't have any firsthand experience with netbooting Macs, but this page
So a friend and I are trying to install debian on an old G4 xserver cluster
node (specs
here)http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/xserve/stats/xserve_g4_1.33_dp_cluster_node.html.
We are following this guide on the debian site
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch04s05.html.en.
So
Thanks for posting Pat. Hopefully we can get some advice. Can you send ne a
direct link to the thread so I can follow tomorrow?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 9, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Patrick Boutet pat.bou...@gmail.com wrote:
So a friend and I are trying to install debian on an old G4 xserver
Em Mon, 6 Sep 2010 14:55:19 -0700
Gary Driggs gdri...@gmail.com escreveu:
The netboot iso from stable, after choosing advanced options, will
allow you to select an unstable, testing, or stable distro for
installation.
There is another way!
I've compiled yaboot from
Hi,
Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 07:31 -0300, Gunther Furtado a écrit :
I've compiled yaboot from
http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/snapshots/yaboot-1.3.15-rc.tar.gz
and copied to the server's /tftpboot directory and... it works! It
takes a lot longer to get to bootprompt but it works.
I've also
hi,
2010/9/17 Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr:
Hi,
Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 07:31 -0300, Gunther Furtado a écrit :
I've compiled yaboot from
http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/snapshots/yaboot-1.3.15-rc.tar.gz
and copied to the server's /tftpboot directory and... it works! It
takes a lot longer
On Sep 6, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Gunther Furtado wrote:
great! Is this documented somwhere?
If it is, I haven't found where. Either way, it's saved me some hassle
thought it worth passing along.
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2010/9/6 Gunther Furtado gunfurt...@gmail.com:
Hi,
My iMac's[1] cd driver is very selective these now-a-days. It only
allows me to boot from original apple distributed media. So I was kind
of push to netbooting.
It all went great when I installed form lenny repository[2] booting
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 02:58:00PM -0300, Gunther Furtado wrote:
It all went great when I installed form lenny repository[2] booting
was successful (using this[3] and then disabling firewall). But using
the very same set of instructions with the files from sid
repository[4] (I believe they are
2010/9/6 Baurzhan Ismagulov i...@radix50.net:
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 02:58:00PM -0300, Gunther Furtado wrote:
It all went great when I installed form lenny repository[2] booting
was successful (using this[3] and then disabling firewall). But using
the very same set of instructions with the
The netboot iso from stable, after choosing advanced options, will allow you to
select an unstable, testing, or stable distro for installation.
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Gary Driggs gdri...@gmail.com escreveu:
The netboot iso from stable, after choosing advanced options, will
allow you to select an unstable, testing, or stable distro for
installation.
great! Is this documented somwhere?
cheers,
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Hi,
Is there currently any way to netboot the installer on old world?
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/PowerPC/OldWorld/PreAlphaManualUpdates
suggests that it is possible but the installation manual doesn't have
clear instructions, section 4.6 mentioned on the wiki page doesn't
address old
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 12:14:57AM -0700, Nick Schmalenberger wrote:
Is there currently any way to netboot the installer on old world?
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/PowerPC/OldWorld/PreAlphaManualUpdates
suggests that it is possible but the installation manual doesn't have
clear
Hi,
I'm trying to network-install Sarge on a RS/6000 7025-F50. Using the
configuration menu of the machine, I configured the network interface. The
machine is able to contact my tftpd-Server and to request the initird. While
the file is transfered, it displays the amount of Packets transfered.
Christian Walther said:
I'm trying to network-install Sarge on a RS/6000 7025-F50. Using the
configuration menu of the machine, I configured the network interface. The
machine is able to contact my tftpd-Server and to request the initird.
While the file is transfered, it displays the amount of
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:46:01AM +0100, Christian Walther wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to network-install Sarge on a RS/6000 7025-F50. Using the
configuration menu of the machine, I configured the network interface. The
machine is able to contact my tftpd-Server and to request the initird.
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:13:30AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 19:21, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:13:29PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
[snip...]
[snip...]
A few hexdump later
All seems fine in the headers I have
On Thursday 23 December 2004 12:48, Sven Luther wrote:
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:13:30AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 19:21, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:13:29PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
[snip...]
[snip...]
A few
[snip...]
[snip...]
A few hexdump later
All seems fine in the headers I have examined.
Entry point offset points to smthing I believe the start of code (no
desassembly yet..)
Load image length
Flags ( showing big endian for the code)
Similar for file vmlinuz, file zImage from
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:13:29PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
[snip...]
[snip...]
A few hexdump later
All seems fine in the headers I have examined.
Entry point offset points to smthing I believe the start of code (no
desassembly yet..)
Load image length
Flags ( showing
On Monday 20 December 2004 22:31, Leigh Brown wrote:
Sven Luther said:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:38:27PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2004 15:57, Philippe Guyot wrote:
I agree, seen by dumping the 1rst sector of chrp ELF image.
BTW netboot prep image is not an ELF
lie, it is a prep machine.
Cool.
I made all the stuff for netbooting (dhcd,tftp and so on).Seems OK.
I am loading vmlinuz-prep.initrd (load net) and the firmware answer:
### : 0 d e boot-file = vmlinuz-prep.initrd
Is this the rc2 or daily build, 2.4 or 2.6 d-i kernel ?
I examined
?
It has firmware 03.03.09 copyright Firmworks.
If it doesn't lie, it is a prep machine.
Cool.
I made all the stuff for netbooting (dhcd,tftp and so on).Seems OK.
I am loading vmlinuz-prep.initrd (load net) and the firmware answer:
### : 0 d e boot-file = vmlinuz-prep.initrd
box, do you know if it uses the prep or ppcbug boot
mechanism ?
It has firmware 03.03.09 copyright Firmworks.
If it doesn't lie, it is a prep machine.
Cool.
I made all the stuff for netbooting (dhcd,tftp and so on).Seems OK.
I am loading vmlinuz-prep.initrd (load net
on a powerpc 604 machine from Bull
This is probably a prep box, do you know if it uses the prep or ppcbug
boot mechanism ?
It has firmware 03.03.09 copyright Firmworks.
If it doesn't lie, it is a prep machine.
Cool.
I made all the stuff for netbooting (dhcd,tftp and so
.
Cool.
I made all the stuff for netbooting (dhcd,tftp and so on).Seems OK.
I am loading vmlinuz-prep.initrd (load net) and the firmware
answer:
### : 0 d e boot-file = vmlinuz-prep.initrd
Is this the rc2 or daily build, 2.4 or 2.6 d-i kernel
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:38:27PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2004 15:57, Philippe Guyot wrote:
I agree, seen by dumping the 1rst sector of chrp ELF image.
BTW netboot prep image is not an ELF ??
In my research, I was looking at the vmlinuz.chrp, specially the ELF
Sven Luther said:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:38:27PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2004 15:57, Philippe Guyot wrote:
I agree, seen by dumping the 1rst sector of chrp ELF image.
BTW netboot prep image is not an ELF ??
In my research, I was looking at the vmlinuz.chrp,
Hi all!
I am trying to install a Debian on a powerpc 604 machine from Bull
It has firmware 03.03.09 copyright Firmworks.
If it doesn't lie, it is a prep machine.
I made all the stuff for netbooting (dhcd,tftp and so on).Seems OK.
I am loading vmlinuz-prep.initrd (load net) and the firmware
HI there,
There was a follow up by another thread 'problem
installing linux on an IBM RS6000 44P-170 machine' but
I guess more people would be interested in this test.
As Jens suggested, I downloaded the
vmlinuz-chrp.initrd from
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/power3/netboot/
.
Hi !
I just network installed a debian 3.0 (woody) on an Apple
Imac (G3 350MHz) with 128 MB of RAM, and here are some
tips for doing it.
PREAMBLE:
This is my second report of installation, using the
root.bin file from the powerpc disk set instead of
the prep disk set (contrary to the
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:38:08PM +0200, Antoine Brenner wrote:
Hi !
I just network installed a debian 3.0 (woody) on an Apple
Imac (G3 350MHz) with 128 MB of RAM, and here are some
tips for doing it.
Thanks for writing this up.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR DEVELOPPERS:
There is a
Hi !
I just network installed a debian 3.0 (woody) on an Apple
Imac (G3 350MHz) with 128 MB of RAM, and here are some
tips for doing it.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR DEVELOPPERS:
There is a problem with the bootfloppies if you want to
install yaboot. (the mac equivalent of lilo) :
mac-fdisk is not
i have one g3 running debian. i would like to netboot a number of g3s
hooked up to the server already running. i have read the yaboot/netboot
how-tos on penguinppc.org but still have some questions:
1. do i need a native filesystem (i.e. swap, root, etc) on the
clients?
2. i need a 'copy of
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 02:13:28PM -0400, David Anthony Hacker wrote:
i have one g3 running debian. i would like to netboot a number of g3s
hooked up to the server already running. i have read the yaboot/netboot
how-tos on penguinppc.org but still have some questions:
1. do i need a
that the client can run in a diskless fashion. I've followed
the instructions on the penguinppc.org site dealing with netbooting and
having root be nfs root, but it doesn't work. The error I get just says that
it can't be mounted. I've properly compiled my 2.4.17 kernel for nfs and so
forth
only got / and /usr as partitions) from the server
to the client so that the client can run in a diskless fashion. I've followed
the instructions on the penguinppc.org site dealing with netbooting and
having root be nfs root, but it doesn't work. The error I get just says that
it can't
tells me that I should set root= to
something different than what it is...
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
Russell
On Monday 13 May 2002 23:26 pm, Russell Hires wrote:
Hello all!
This is in reference to the netbooting howto on penguinppc.org...
I'm able to get the server to pass the kernel
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Hello all!
This is in reference to the netbooting howto on penguinppc.org...
I'm able to get the server to pass the kernel to the netbooting client, but
then the client can't mount the NFS filesystem. It sees it, but it won't
mount. My question
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Hello all!
I've been reading the netboot howto on penguinppc.org, but it doesn't say
anything about what to type into the OF prompt on the client computer...
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
Russell
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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:08:22AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
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Hello all!
I've been reading the netboot howto on penguinppc.org, but it doesn't say
anything about what to type into the OF prompt on the client computer...
Well the way it's
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:49:49AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
Well the way it's laid out in there, holding the n key during boot
makes OF look for a bootp server. If you have that yaboot.conf
employed you should get yaboot loaded without having to go in
OpenFirmware.
OTOH, if you're
I know that there was a post on this list a year or so back, that had a
calculator to make a MacOS Netboot conf file.
For OS image to reside on a Linux machine.
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Im just sitting here listening to the scream of the butterfly
On onsdag 8. mai 2002
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:35:45AM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:49:49AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
Well the way it's laid out in there, holding the n key during boot
makes OF look for a bootp server. If you have that yaboot.conf
employed you should get yaboot
and enet:0,bootme with default-gateway-ip=my.192.dhcp.server
What a strange syntax... what does the bootme do? For that
matter, what does the 0 do?
Okie.. it is kind of a complicated story, but the point is that
your dhcp servers network interface must be on the same
subnet as your
I knew that would get your attention..
setting boot-device to enet:0,bootme
goes to the first most powerful dhcp server it can find,
who doesn't happen to have the bootfile, and so it seems to release
that OFFER and then goes to the next dhcp server who was waving
the file around in an OFFER and
So, I'm trying to netboot my replacement TiBook. I'm following
Ethan's instructions at:
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/netboot.html
I've set up my /tftpboot directory, and installed dhcpd and tftpd.
Here's what I get in my log files:
Oct 1 23:49:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER from
On 2 Oct 2001, Colin Walters wrote:
Oct 1 23:49:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:03:93:54:7b:46 via
eth1
Oct 1 23:49:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.5.90 to
00:03:93:54:7b:46 via eth1
Oct 1 23:49:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.5.90 from
Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Um. Why do you have both dhcpd and bootpd on the same system? Remove
bootpd if you aren't using it (if you're using dhcpd, obviously you
aren't). Then try again.
I don't have it installed:
neutral:/home/walters# dpkg -l bootp
Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't have it installed:
Ah. But I *did* have an old instance running as a daemon. Hm. I
thought it ran from inetd. Anyways, I've killed it, but I am still
failing to netboot.
Oct 2 01:27:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:03:93:54:7b:46
[ Yes, I am going for a record number of replies to oneself ]
Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oct 2 01:27:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:03:93:54:7b:46 via
eth1
Oct 2 01:27:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.5.90 to
00:03:93:54:7b:46 via eth1
Oct 2
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:16:28AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
So, I'm trying to netboot my replacement TiBook. I'm following
Ethan's instructions at:
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/netboot.html
I've set up my /tftpboot directory, and installed dhcpd and tftpd.
Here's what I get in
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:34:04AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
By the way, does anyone know how to netboot from Open Firmware? I
tried typing 'boot net', but this doesn't seem to work; it just goes
straight into the MacOS on the hard disk (I don't see any DHCP
requests). Also, 'boot enet'
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:20:02PM -0300, Ricardo Pardini wrote:
Hello all,
i was wondering, has anyone tried netbooting Debian on PPC? I own
a Beige G3, the one that has a lot of problems with OpenFirmware (it?s
OF 2.01f) and because of that I can only boot Linux via BootX, which
I can netboot my G4 cube successfully from Open Firmware using
boot enet:,yaboot
Using ethereal, I see that the G4 gets the DHCPACK and proceeds to
download yaboot from my TFTP server.
But when I boot holding down the 'N' key, it does something different.
After getting the exact same
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:28:45PM -0400, Eric C. Cooper wrote:
I can netboot my G4 cube successfully from Open Firmware using
boot enet:,yaboot
Using ethereal, I see that the G4 gets the DHCPACK and proceeds to
download yaboot from my TFTP server.
But when I boot holding down the 'N'
Hello.
I am trying to get my PowerMac 5500/225 to netboot using BootP,
TFTP, and a kernel image, but I do not know how. Any help would be
appreciated. I am also trying to get my Beige G3 300 to netboot, and it
fails after loading the kernel image.
Thank you.
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Last
Here's an explanation for this problem:
http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n18731
Adam
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:05:05PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello.
I am trying to get my PowerMac 5500/225 to netboot using BootP,
TFTP, and a kernel image, but I do not know
netbooting on oldworlds, its not
officially supported by apple and all i have heard is that some of the
more recent oldworld OF implementations have some half assed netboot
abilities.
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc
or
http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc
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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 01:07:29 -0900
To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help
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Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:11:32 +0800
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:03:07AM -0500, C. Setlow wrote:
Hello.
I
On 29 Adar 5761, Rolf Schatzmann wrote:
You can boot almost any mac that will run OS9.1 and has open
firmware using a linux (or any *nix) box with these instructions.
http://www.gwc.org.uk/~ali/nb/
As that page itself says, this only applies to NewWorld Macs. I
believe the OP was talking
NetBSD has a tutorial on NetBooting and has a PPC Specific section
(covering both Oldworld and NewWorld Macs with OF) at
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/. It is for
booting a NetBSD client, but from looking around all probably need to
change is the name of the kernel
Thanks for your help. I'll have the error messages after I get my DSL setup.
Hello.
I am trying to get my PowerMac 5500/225 to netboot using BootP,
TFTP, and a kernel image, but I do not know how. Any help would be
appreciated. I am also trying to get my Beige G3 300 to netboot, and it
fails after loading the kernel image.
Thank you.
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