Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've got a Sun Netra I5, with serial console only. The current Debian > boot disks don't like the serial console, so I used RedHat's instead. > Now I've got this Netra Linux box :)
I don't know sun at all, but how about modifying the bootdisks to spawn a getty and the installprog on ttyS? I tried to take a look at disks-sparc/root.bin, but (after gunzipping it) I wasn't able to mount it - Are they somehow special? So I refer to i386's root.bin. Indeed I never used anything else than i386, but maybe the basic Idea applies. root.bin doesn't contain a getty and it's init is the installation-prog. So you need to rename init to something else, copy a real init and getty to the disks, make an inittab. Probably this won't fit on the original image, so you need to make a bigger one. # pwd /var/tmp # zcat /pub/debian/hamm/main/disks-i386/current/root.bin > root.img # ls -l root.img /sbin/init /sbin/getty -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12468 Jan 24 22:48 /sbin/getty* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24188 Apr 15 17:09 /sbin/init* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2662400 May 12 11:47 root.img # set newsize=$[ ( 2662400 + 24188 + 12468 ) / 512 +1 ] # mount root.img /oldroot -oloop # dd if=/dev/zero of=newroot.img count=$newsize # mkfs.blah newroot.img # mount newroot.img /newroot -oloop # cd /oldroot; find -depth | cpio -pmd /newroot # cd /newroot/sbin; mv init install_prog # cd /sbin; cp init getty /newroot/sbin # vi /newroot/etc/inittab and add a line like T1:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty -m -l /sbin/install_prog -L ttyS1 9600 vt100 # umount /newroot [insert an install disk in fd0] # mount /dev/fd0 /floppy # cp /var/tmp/newroot.bin /floppy/root.bin # umount /floppy This is completely untested (I hate to reboot) and as mentioned above I have no clue regarding sun. Please let me know if this works or if it is nonsense. Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
