On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:12:27AM +0200, Stephan Marguet wrote: > Chris, > > Thanks for your quick reply! The information about debootstrap is > very useful, thank you. Regarding the serial problem, I had tried every > possible line speed option, played with the firmware endlessly, etc, and > still it was a no go, which is so odd considering our own kernels have > never had this problem. I wonder if there are perhaps good > scripts/instructions for how to supply your own kernel and build a debian > boot floppy, I suppose it's more complicated than adding INITRD support > and a ramdisk.image.gz? (I'd tried this, stealing it from: > stable/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac... but it never worked :/). > Ohwell, all this is no longer crucial, we now have our pretty diskless > debians and are writing scripts to automate future installs. Thanks > again!
Yes, I almost added that but you were going for the network boot so I didn't. I think people have had even less luck with floppies on MVME, I will be corrected if I'm wrong I hope. The instructions are under Replacing the Rescue Floppy Kernel in the Install manual appendix. How about feeding those scripts back to us? -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
