Re: newworld netboot mini-howto

2000-09-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 04:00:26PM -0500, pohl wrote: > > Thanks to your timely mini-howto, I managed to install debian > on the iMac with the flakey cdrom/cdrom-drive problem I posted > about last night. There was only one thing that definately > needs to be corrected in the document: where you

Re: newworld netboot mini-howto

2000-09-09 Thread pohl
Thanks to your timely mini-howto, I managed to install debian on the iMac with the flakey cdrom/cdrom-drive problem I posted about last night. There was only one thing that definately needs to be corrected in the document: where you suggest looking at /var/log/daemon.log to get the MAC address,

Re: newworld netboot mini-howto

2000-09-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:20:22AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > i will post these instructions on my web page soon for future use > since i don't know of any other site that explains in sufficient > detail how to netboot macs. I must be really really bored because I am writing html again... th

newworld netboot mini-howto

2000-09-09 Thread Ethan Benson
well i was bored so i decided to figure out how to netboot a powermac, heres how: install bootpd (for debian apt-get install bootp) install tftpd (for debian apt-get install tftpd) edit /etc/inetd.conf as required you should have these two lines: bootps dgram udp waitroot/usr/sbin/