On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 04:32:01PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello, > On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 05:03:37PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > Great. I will try this, probably Tuesday. Is there some HOWTO/docu for > > netbooting d-i? (Sorry if something obvious exists, I am on dial-in > > right now). > > I now read > http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/olh_ppc_netboot.html > > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/netboot.html > > http://www.soziologie.ch/users/steinlin/d-i/ > > So I would set up a bootp-server, and a tftp-server and would drop all > kernel releated files into the latter, skipping yaboot.conf. Is this > correct?
Well, only missing is a debian documentation which explains this kind of things, care to contribute your experience to a debian document later on ? > Next I would run from OF > boot network root=/... console=... Well, root is not needed for d-i. and console would be ttyS0 or whatever if you are using serial console, or nothing if you hope to work with the graphic card and fbdev. > What would I place into root? Also am I strictly limited to serial > console? (i.e., is it possible to have some kind of framebuffer after > booting for local keyboard based access?) Well, supposedly you have a graphic card, which is supported by the kernel fbdevs, there should be no problem. That is if Jens didn't kick them out of the kernel by then :). Mmm, Jens, maybe he may have a matrox graphic card, which would be problematic here since you removed it in 2.6.7-3, as this is a popular graphic card by older powerpc hardware, as it was well supported back then. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
