On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 20:47, Thomas Poindessous wrote: > today I tried netboot install for sparc64. It did worked, but with several > problems:
It looks like you're matching most of what I'm seeing too, with the bus
errors and tilo failures.
I got it to work by using piggyback64 directly, which is what
tftpboot.sh seems to do.
> - now something really weird : I did a make build_cdrom with
> pkg-lists/cdrom/{common,sparc} from pkg-lists/netboot/. Then I did a
> tftpboot image with tftpboot.sh script. It worked ... something is
> really wrong in build_netboot method.
No bus errors? Weird.
> - no fdisk : I will do another image tomorrow with fdisk-udeb
pkglists/netboot/{mips,mipsel,hppa} all have fdisk-udeb explicitely
mentioned in there, saying anna doesn't pull it in for some reason.
Anyone know if that was fixed in today's upload of anna?
> - no dns resolving : I can't install from anything else than my
> apt-proxy with numerical ip address. I tried to do a wget
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/ and I got an error about dns resolution. My dns
> server works fine and /etc/resolv.conf is correct. Maybe it's about
> the line in config/i386/cdrom.cfg :
> EXTRALIBS = /lib/libnss_dns* /lib/libresolv*
I've been meaning to take a look at that, since libc-udeb should have
those files in it anyway.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
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