Re: New Debian install images

2003-12-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:27:42AM +0100, Olivier Bornet wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:34:10AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > Also, this includes a new sparc-mini.iso with the fixed SILO so that > > things boot again for sparc64. > > > > ISO: http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sp

Re: New Debian install images

2003-12-04 Thread Olivier Bornet
Hi Ben, On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:34:10AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > Also, this includes a new sparc-mini.iso with the fixed SILO so that > things boot again for sparc64. > > ISO: http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/sparc-mini.iso :-))) Right: this boot again on sparc64 (at least o

Empty string?!

2003-12-04 Thread Carsten Friede
Hi. Can anyone tell me, how to input an empty string as value for an option in OpenBoot BootROM? Thanks. Cya. Carsten Friede -- == Dresden University of Technology Department of Computer Science Dresden, Germany ===

Update (Was: Re: Still confused (Was: Re: SILO Fun))

2003-12-04 Thread Mauricio
Just for the heck of it, I physically copied the silo.conf file to /etc instead of just symlinking it: # mv silo.conf silo.conf.link # cp ../boot/silo.conf . # ls -l silo.* -rw-r--r--1 root root 2350 Dec 4 17:38 silo.conf lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 17 Dec 1 19:40

Re: Install debian on a diskless SparcStation (nfsroot)

2003-12-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:11:47AM +0100, Jan Houstek wrote: > Hi all! > > I found some old pizzaboxes (mostly SparcStation 5) in our department. I'd > like to use them as public X-terminals. I installed woody on one of the > machines. > > Now I'd like to move the instalation to a NFS server beca

New Debian install images

2003-12-04 Thread Ben Collins
I have to get some 2.4.23 kernel images out, but this set has a 2.4.21 kernel with the do_brk patch (and other security patches that may be related to 2.4.21). Also, this includes a new sparc-mini.iso with the fixed SILO so that things boot again for sparc64. Since I don't have login to auric rig

Re: Install debian on a diskless SparcStation (nfsroot)

2003-12-04 Thread Carsten Friede
Andrew Sharp wrote: Have a look at the NFS-Root howto, and check out the packages nfsboot and nfsbooted and maybe some parts of netboot (I don't think the boot rom code in the latter will be of much use, and certainly isn't needed for sun boxen). The howto has most everything, however. I was ab

Re: Install debian on a diskless SparcStation (nfsroot)

2003-12-04 Thread Andrew Sharp
Have a look at the NFS-Root howto, and check out the packages nfsboot and nfsbooted and maybe some parts of netboot (I don't think the boot rom code in the latter will be of much use, and certainly isn't needed for sun boxen). The howto has most everything, however. I was able to put together a n

Install debian on a diskless SparcStation (nfsroot)

2003-12-04 Thread Jan Houstek
Hi all! I found some old pizzaboxes (mostly SparcStation 5) in our department. I'd like to use them as public X-terminals. I installed woody on one of the machines. Now I'd like to move the instalation to a NFS server because disks in the boxes are rather noisy. But I have no idea how to setup bo