Hi list, i'm trying since a few hours to get 3.8 on a (linux-based) root-server, without success. I googled some tutorials (for ex. http://wiki.bsd-crew.de/index.php?title=Strato-Rootserver_mit_NetBSD&redirect=no) but they don't seem to work (i tried it with my own bootdisk and the mentioned precompiled one). All i get is a blocked ssh-login. I see the pxe-loader come up, but then there is silence... After writing the floppy-image to the disk i used fdisk to see what happened and i get something like this:
------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk /dev/sda This disk has both DOS and BSD magic. Give the 'b' command to go to BSD mode. The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 20023. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): b There is no *BSD partition on /dev/sda. Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 ? 15357 229722 1721888152+ e8 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 ? 1 1 0 1 FAT12 Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda3 115307 125803 84312115+ 0 Empty Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda4 ? 1 1 0 3f Unknown Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order ------------------------------ (it's the same view without using 'b') Other tutorials mention they created a local disk-image using an identical disk and then upped the whole dd image. But i don't have an identical disk and this way seems very brute to me. Anybody got a better way or a tutorial i missed? Thanks for your time, Chris
