Re: trouble netbooting debian on xserver g4 ppc cluster node

should work on Thursday. > > Thanks again for the suggestions, I'll keep everyone posted on how it goes. > > Cheers, > Patrick > > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Netbooting iBook/PowerBook has always been s

Re: trouble netbooting debian on xserver g4 ppc cluster node

HCP config file to my own and hopefully this should work on Thursday. Thanks again for the suggestions, I'll keep everyone posted on how it goes. Cheers, Patrick On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote: > Hi, > > Netbooting iBook/PowerBook has always been strange to

Re: trouble netbooting debian on xserver g4 ppc cluster node

Hi, Netbooting iBook/PowerBook has always been strange to me, so here are my advices : > Can anyone offer any guidance as to what files to > place in the tftpboot directory? We are assuming vmlinux, initrd.gz, yaboot, > yaboot.conf and boot.msg from > http://http.us.debian.org/debian

Re: trouble netbooting debian on xserver g4 ppc cluster node

_dp_cluster_node.html>. > We are following this guide on the debian site > <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch04s05.html.en> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch04s05.html.en. > > Hi Patrick > I don't have any firsthand experience wit

Re: trouble netbooting debian on xserver g4 ppc cluster node

n't have any firsthand experience with netbooting Macs, but this page has some hints and example configuration files (which you probably have already seen): http://wiki.ppckernel.org/w/Mac_Netboot From a quick look you seem to be on the right track. Do your dhcp/tftp logs give you any hint

Re: trouble netbooting debian on xserver g4 ppc cluster node

Thanks for posting Pat. Hopefully we can get some advice. Can you send ne a direct link to the thread so I can follow tomorrow? Sent from my iPhone On Jan 9, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Patrick Boutet wrote: > So a friend and I are trying to install debian on an old G4 xserver cluster > node (specs h

trouble netbooting debian on xserver g4 ppc cluster node

So a friend and I are trying to install debian on an old G4 xserver cluster node (specs here). We are following this guide on the debian site http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch04s05.html.en. So f

Re: netbooting

hi, 2010/9/17 Benjamin Cama : > Hi, > > Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 07:31 -0300, Gunther Furtado a écrit : >> I've compiled yaboot from >> http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/snapshots/yaboot-1.3.15-rc.tar.gz >> and copied to the server's /tftpboot directory and... it works! It >> takes a lot longer to g

Re: netbooting

Hi, Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 07:31 -0300, Gunther Furtado a écrit : > I've compiled yaboot from > http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/snapshots/yaboot-1.3.15-rc.tar.gz > and copied to the server's /tftpboot directory and... it works! It > takes a lot longer to get to bootprompt but it works. I've al

Re: netbooting

Em Mon, 6 Sep 2010 14:55:19 -0700 Gary Driggs escreveu: > The netboot iso from stable, after choosing advanced options, will > allow you to select an unstable, testing, or stable distro for > installation. > There is another way! I've compiled yaboot from http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/snapshots/ya

Re: netbooting

On Sep 6, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Gunther Furtado wrote: > great! Is this documented somwhere? If it is, I haven't found where. Either way, it's saved me some hassle & thought it worth passing along. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: netbooting

Em Mon, 6 Sep 2010 14:55:19 -0700 Gary Driggs escreveu: > The netboot iso from stable, after choosing advanced options, will > allow you to select an unstable, testing, or stable distro for > installation. > great! Is this documented somwhere? cheers, -- "...agora, só nos sobrou o futuro..."

Re: netbooting

The netboot iso from stable, after choosing advanced options, will allow you to select an unstable, testing, or stable distro for installation. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: netbooting

2010/9/6 Baurzhan Ismagulov : > On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 02:58:00PM -0300, Gunther Furtado wrote: >> It all went great when I installed form lenny repository[2] booting >> was successful (using this[3] and then disabling firewall). But using >> the very same set of instructions with the files from s

Re: netbooting

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 02:58:00PM -0300, Gunther Furtado wrote: > It all went great when I installed form lenny repository[2] booting > was successful (using this[3] and then disabling firewall). But using > the very same set of instructions with the files from sid > repository[4] (I believe they

Re: netbooting

2010/9/6 Gunther Furtado : > Hi, > > My iMac's[1] cd driver is very selective these now-a-days. It only > allows me to boot from original apple distributed media. So I was kind > of push to netbooting. > > It all went great when I installed form lenny repository[2] booti

netbooting

Hi, My iMac's[1] cd driver is very selective these now-a-days. It only allows me to boot from original apple distributed media. So I was kind of push to netbooting. It all went great when I installed form lenny repository[2] booting was successful (using this[3] and then disabling firewall)

Succes netbooting powerbook6,8

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Binaries and directions from the link both worked. I am officially running a free, actively developed OS with working X11 on my Apple-abandoned platform. I'm giddy! See below for details, but I have questions: 1) Sound is not working. When launching

Re: netbooting oldworld

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 12:14:57AM -0700, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: > Is there currently any way to netboot the installer on old world? > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/PowerPC/OldWorld/PreAlphaManualUpdates > suggests that it is possible but the installation manual doesn't have > clear in

netbooting oldworld

Hi, Is there currently any way to netboot the installer on old world? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/PowerPC/OldWorld/PreAlphaManualUpdates suggests that it is possible but the installation manual doesn't have clear instructions, section 4.6 mentioned on the wiki page doesn't address old wo

Re: Netbooting a 7025-F50

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:46:01AM +0100, Christian Walther wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to network-install Sarge on a RS/6000 7025-F50. Using the > configuration menu of the machine, I configured the network interface. The > machine is able to contact my tftpd-Server and to request the initird.

Re: Netbooting a 7025-F50

Christian Walther said: > I'm trying to network-install Sarge on a RS/6000 7025-F50. Using the > configuration menu of the machine, I configured the network interface. The > machine is able to contact my tftpd-Server and to request the initird. > While the file is transfered, it displays the amount

Netbooting a 7025-F50

Hi, I'm trying to network-install Sarge on a RS/6000 7025-F50. Using the configuration menu of the machine, I configured the network interface. The machine is able to contact my tftpd-Server and to request the initird. While the file is transfered, it displays the amount of Packets transfered.

Re: Problem netbooting a prep machine

On Thursday 23 December 2004 12:48, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:13:30AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 19:21, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:13:29PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > > > > [snip...] > > > > > > > > [snip...] > >

Re: Problem netbooting a prep machine

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:13:30AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 19:21, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:13:29PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > > > [snip...] > > > > > > [snip...] > > > > > > > A few hexdump later > > > > > > > > All seems fine in

Re: Problem netbooting a prep machine

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:13:29PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > [snip...] > > [snip...] > > > > A few hexdump later > > > > All seems fine in the headers I have examined. > > Entry point offset points to smthing I believe the start of code (no > > desassembly yet..) > > Load image length > >

Re: Problem netbooting a prep machine

[snip...] [snip...] > > A few hexdump later > > All seems fine in the headers I have examined. > Entry point offset points to smthing I believe the start of code (no > desassembly yet..) > Load image length > Flags ( showing big endian for the code) > Similar for file vmlinuz, file zImage

Re: Problem netbooting a prep machine

On Monday 20 December 2004 22:31, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:38:27PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > >> On Monday 20 December 2004 15:57, Philippe Guyot wrote: > >> > I agree, seen by dumping the 1rst sector of chrp ELF image. > >> > BTW netboot prep image

Re: Problem netbooting a prep machine

Sven Luther said: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:38:27PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: >> On Monday 20 December 2004 15:57, Philippe Guyot wrote: >> > I agree, seen by dumping the 1rst sector of chrp ELF image. >> > BTW netboot prep image is not an ELF ?? >> >> >> In my research, I was looking at the

Re: Problem netbooting a prep machine

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:38:27PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > On Monday 20 December 2004 15:57, Philippe Guyot wrote: > > I agree, seen by dumping the 1rst sector of chrp ELF image. > > BTW netboot prep image is not an ELF ?? > > > In my research, I was looking at the vmlinuz.chrp, specially

Re: Problem netbooting a prep machine

p or > > > > ppcbug boot mechanism ? > > > > > > > > > It has firmware 03.03.09 copyright Firmworks. > > > > > > > > > > If it doesn't lie, it is a prep machine. > > > > > > > > Cool. > > > > > &g

Re: Problem netbooting a prep machine

3.03.09 copyright Firmworks. > > > > > > > > If it doesn't lie, it is a prep machine. > > > > > > Cool. > > > > > > > I made all the stuff for netbooting (dhcd,tftp and so on).Seems OK. > > > > > > > > I am loadin

Re: Problem netbooting a prep machine

04 machine from Bull > > > > This is probably a prep box, do you know if it uses the prep or ppcbug boot > > mechanism ? > > > > > It has firmware 03.03.09 copyright Firmworks. > > > > > > If it doesn't lie, it is a prep machine. > > > &

Re: Problem netbooting a prep machine

or ppcbug boot > mechanism ? > > > It has firmware 03.03.09 copyright Firmworks. > > > > If it doesn't lie, it is a prep machine. > > Cool. > > > I made all the stuff for netbooting (dhcd,tftp and so on).Seems OK. > > > > I am loading vmlin

Re: Problem netbooting a prep machine

. > > If it doesn't lie, it is a prep machine. Cool. > I made all the stuff for netbooting (dhcd,tftp and so on).Seems OK. > > I am loading vmlinuz-prep.initrd ("load net") and the firmware answer: > > ### : 0 d e boot-file = vmlinuz-prep.initrd Is this the r

Problem netbooting a prep machine

Hi all! I am trying to install a Debian on a powerpc 604 machine from Bull It has firmware 03.03.09 copyright Firmworks. If it doesn't lie, it is a prep machine. I made all the stuff for netbooting (dhcd,tftp and so on).Seems OK. I am loading vmlinuz-prep.initrd ("load net") a

Problem netbooting the daily built power3 image

HI there, There was a follow up by another thread 'problem installing linux on an IBM RS6000 44P-170 machine' but I guess more people would be interested in this test. As Jens suggested, I downloaded the vmlinuz-chrp.initrd from http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/power3/netboot/ .

Netbooting Woody on an Imac [Revised]

Hi ! I just network installed a debian 3.0 (woody) on an Apple Imac (G3 350MHz) with 128 MB of RAM, and here are some tips for doing it. PREAMBLE: This is my second report of installation, using the root.bin file from the "powerpc" disk set instead of the "prep" disk set (contrary to the docu

Re: Netbooting Woody on an Imac

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:38:08PM +0200, Antoine Brenner wrote: > > > Hi ! > > I just network installed a debian 3.0 (woody) on an Apple > Imac (G3 350MHz) with 128 MB of RAM, and here are some > tips for doing it. Thanks for writing this up. > > EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR DEVELOPPERS: > There

Netbooting Woody on an Imac

Hi ! I just network installed a debian 3.0 (woody) on an Apple Imac (G3 350MHz) with 128 MB of RAM, and here are some tips for doing it. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR DEVELOPPERS: There is a problem with the bootfloppies if you want to install yaboot. (the mac equivalent of lilo) : mac-fdisk is not a

Re: netbooting newworld g3s

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 02:13:28PM -0400, David Anthony Hacker wrote: > > i have one g3 running debian. i would like to netboot a number of g3s > hooked up to the server already running. i have read the yaboot/netboot > how-tos on penguinppc.org but still have some questions: > > 1. do i need a

netbooting newworld g3s

i have one g3 running debian. i would like to netboot a number of g3s hooked up to the server already running. i have read the yaboot/netboot how-tos on penguinppc.org but still have some questions: 1. do i need a native filesystem (i.e. swap, root, etc) on the clients? 2. i need a 'copy of ya

Re: Netbooting

irectory (partition? I've only got / and /usr as partitions) from the server > to the client so that the client can run in a diskless fashion. I've followed > the instructions on the penguinppc.org site dealing with netbooting and > having root be nfs root, but it doesn't work.

Netbooting

client so that the client can run in a diskless fashion. I've followed the instructions on the penguinppc.org site dealing with netbooting and having root be nfs root, but it doesn't work. The error I get just says that it can't be mounted. I've properly compiled my 2.4.17 ker

Re: Netbooting, Part II

I was getting before. It just tells me that I should set root= to something different than what it is... Can anyone help? Thanks! Russell On Monday 13 May 2002 23:26 pm, Russell Hires wrote: > Hello all! > > This is in reference to the netbooting howto on penguinppc.org... > I'm a

Netbooting, Part II

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all! This is in reference to the netbooting howto on penguinppc.org... I'm able to get the server to pass the kernel to the netbooting client, but then the client can't mount the NFS filesystem. It sees it, but it won't mount.

Re: Netbooting

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:35:45AM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:49:49AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Well the way it's laid out in there, holding the n key during boot > > makes OF look for a bootp server. If you have that yaboot.conf > > employed you should get yaboot

Re: Netbooting

I know that there was a post on this list a year or so back, that had a calculator to make a MacOS Netboot conf file. For OS image to reside on a Linux machine. -- Yours Sincerely, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen "I’m just sitting here listening to the scream of the butterfly" On onsdag 8. mai 200

Re: Netbooting

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:49:49AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > Well the way it's laid out in there, holding the n key during boot > makes OF look for a bootp server. If you have that yaboot.conf > employed you should get yaboot loaded without having to go in > OpenFirmware. > > OTOH, if you're t

Re: Netbooting

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:08:22AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all! > > I've been reading the netboot howto on penguinppc.org, but it doesn't say > anything about what to type into the OF prompt on the client computer... Well the way i

Netbooting

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all! I've been reading the netboot howto on penguinppc.org, but it doesn't say anything about what to type into the OF prompt on the client computer... Can anyone help? Thanks! Russell - -- Linux -- the OS for the Renaissance Man -BEGI

Re: G4 netbooting with two DHCP servers.

> > and enet:0,bootme with default-gateway-ip=my.192.dhcp.server > > What a strange syntax... what does the "bootme" do? For that > matter, what does the "0" do? Okie.. it is kind of a complicated story, but the point is that your dhcp servers network interface must be on the same subnet as you

G4 netbooting with two DHCP servers.

I knew that would get your attention.. setting boot-device to enet:0,bootme goes to the first most powerful dhcp server it can find, who doesn't happen to have the bootfile, and so it seems to release that OFFER and then goes to the next dhcp server who was waving the file around in an OFFER and a

Re: netbooting problems

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:34:04AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > By the way, does anyone know how to netboot from Open Firmware? I > tried typing 'boot net', but this doesn't seem to work; it just goes > straight into the MacOS on the hard disk (I don't see any DHCP > requests). Also, 'boot enet'

Re: netbooting problems

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:16:28AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > So, I'm trying to netboot my replacement TiBook. I'm following > Ethan's instructions at: > > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/netboot.html > > I've set up my /tftpboot directory, and installed dhcpd and tftpd. > Here's what I g

Re: netbooting problems

[ Yes, I am going for a record number of replies to oneself ] Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oct 2 01:27:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:03:93:54:7b:46 via > eth1 > Oct 2 01:27:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.5.90 to > 00:03:93:54:7b:46 via eth1 > Oct 2

Re: netbooting problems

Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't have it installed: Ah. But I *did* have an old instance running as a daemon. Hm. I thought it ran from inetd. Anyways, I've killed it, but I am still failing to netboot. Oct 2 01:27:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:03:93:54:7b:

Re: netbooting problems

Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Um. Why do you have both dhcpd and bootpd on the same system? Remove > bootpd if you aren't using it (if you're using dhcpd, obviously you > aren't). Then try again. I don't have it installed: neutral:/home/walters# dpkg -l bootp Desired=Unknown/Install

Re: netbooting problems

On 2 Oct 2001, Colin Walters wrote: > Oct 1 23:49:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:03:93:54:7b:46 via > eth1 > Oct 1 23:49:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.5.90 to > 00:03:93:54:7b:46 via eth1 > Oct 1 23:49:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.5.90 from > 0

netbooting problems

So, I'm trying to netboot my replacement TiBook. I'm following Ethan's instructions at: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/netboot.html I've set up my /tftpboot directory, and installed dhcpd and tftpd. Here's what I get in my log files: Oct 1 23:49:52 neutral dhcpd-2.2.x: DHCPDISCOVER from 0

Re: Netbooting/Quik/SystemDisk

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:20:02PM -0300, Ricardo Pardini wrote: > Hello all, > > i was wondering, has anyone tried netbooting Debian on PPC? I own > a Beige G3, the one that has a lot of problems with OpenFirmware (it?s > OF 2.01f) and because of that I can only boot Linux v

Netbooting/Quik/SystemDisk

Hello all, i was wondering, has anyone tried netbooting Debian on PPC? I own a Beige G3, the one that has a lot of problems with OpenFirmware (it´s OF 2.01f) and because of that I can only boot Linux via BootX, which annoys me very much because I have to keep MacOS and all this 5 partitions

Re: Why does netbooting work from OF but not 'N' key?

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:28:45PM -0400, Eric C. Cooper wrote: > I can netboot my G4 cube successfully from Open Firmware using > boot enet:,yaboot > Using ethereal, I see that the G4 gets the DHCPACK and proceeds to > download yaboot from my TFTP server. > > But when I boot holding down th

Why does netbooting work from OF but not 'N' key?

I can netboot my G4 cube successfully from Open Firmware using boot enet:,yaboot Using ethereal, I see that the G4 gets the DHCPACK and proceeds to download yaboot from my TFTP server. But when I boot holding down the 'N' key, it does something different. After getting the exact same DHCP

Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help

Here's an explanation for this problem: http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n18731 Adam On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:05:05PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello. > > I am trying to get my PowerMac 5500/225 to netboot using BootP, > > TFTP, and a kernel image, but I do not

RE: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help

> Hello. > I am trying to get my PowerMac 5500/225 to netboot using BootP, > TFTP, and a kernel image, but I do not know how. Any help would be > appreciated. I am also trying to get my Beige G3 300 to netboot, and it > fails after loading the kernel image. > Thank you. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help

Thanks for your help. I'll have the error messages after I get my DSL setup.

Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help

NetBSD has a tutorial on NetBooting and has a PPC Specific section (covering both Oldworld and NewWorld Macs with OF) at http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/. It is for booting a NetBSD client, but from looking around all probably need to change is the name of the kernel and

Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help

On 29 Adar 5761, Rolf Schatzmann wrote: > You can boot almost any mac that will run OS9.1 and has open > firmware using a linux (or any *nix) box with these instructions. > > http://www.gwc.org.uk/~ali/nb/ As that page itself says, this only applies to NewWorld Macs. I believe the OP was talkin

Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help

m: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 01:07:29 -0900 > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help > Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:11:32 +0800 > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 a

Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help

don't know much about netbooting on oldworlds, its not officially supported by apple and all i have heard is that some of the more recent oldworld OF implementations have some half assed netboot abilities. http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc or http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc -

Oldworld-Netbooting-Help

Hello. I am trying to get my PowerMac 5500/225 to netboot using BootP, TFTP, and a kernel image, but I do not know how. Any help would be appreciated. I am also trying to get my Beige G3 300 to netboot, and it fails after loading the kernel image. Thank you. [EMAIL PROTECTED]