Re: trouble netbooting debian on xserver g4 ppc cluster node

Success!!! Thanks very much for the help Tom and Benjamin, Tom that wiki you pointed us to really helped us get things going and explained the process clearly. And Benjamin your tips and example dhcpd.conf file ended up solving the last issues we ran into, so I can't thank you enough. We ended up

Re: trouble netbooting debian on xserver g4 ppc cluster node

I only had an hour today to work on it and I ran into a small tftp issue which I will resolve when I try again on Thursday, so I still didn't get it working. But with the suggestions of Tom and now your's Bejamin I think were really close. I'll check the logs again and compare the DHCP config file

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/dists/lenny/

Re: trouble netbooting debian on xserver g4 ppc cluster node

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:20 AM, t...@gmail wrote: > > On 10/01/2011, at 4:38 PM, Patrick Boutet wrote: > > So a friend and I are trying to install debian on an old G4 xserver cluster > node (specs > here).

Re: trouble netbooting debian on xserver g4 ppc cluster node

On 10/01/2011, at 4:38 PM, Patrick Boutet wrote: > 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. > Hi Patrick I don't have any fi

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