trouble netbooting debian on xserver g4 ppc cluster node

2011-01-09 Thread Patrick Boutet
structure in the tftpboot directory. Any advice on how to get this xserver to netboot would be amazingly helpful, we've been fighting with it for many weeks now and not getting anywhere :( Sincerely, Patrick Boutet

Re: trouble netbooting debian on xserver g4 ppc cluster node

2011-01-10 Thread Patrick Boutet
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)<http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/xserve/stats/xserve_g4_1.33

Re: trouble netbooting debian on xserver g4 ppc cluster node

2011-01-11 Thread Patrick Boutet
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

2011-01-16 Thread Patrick Boutet
Once we had this setup we did a "boot enet:0,yaboot" from OpenFirmware on the XServe and it worked great. Cheers, Patrick On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Patrick Boutet wrote: > I only had an hour today to work on it and I ran into a smal

Debian won't boot after removal of video card

2011-01-23 Thread Patrick Boutet
So I have Debian (Lenny) installed on a G4 Xserver cluster node (specs here ). We put 2 cards in the PCI riser expansion slot, a ATI Radeon 7000 and a 10/100 Nic. Everything installed fine and was booting perfe

Re: Debian won't boot after removal of video card

2011-01-24 Thread Patrick Boutet
2011/1/24 Michel Dänzer > On Son, 2011-01-23 at 12:43 -0700, Patrick Boutet wrote: > > So I have Debian (Lenny) installed on a G4 Xserver cluster node (specs > > here). > > We put 2 cards in the PCI riser expansion slot, a ATI Radeon 7000 and > > a 10/100 Nic. >

Re: Anybody know how to netboot Debian on a PowerMac?

2011-02-11 Thread Patrick Boutet
>> […] >> >>> Questions: >>> >> >> I think almost all your questions are answered in a message by me to >> Patrick Boutet one month ago : >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2011/01/msg00013.html >> >> Regards, >> benjami

Re: Anybody know how to netboot Debian on a PowerMac?

2011-02-12 Thread Patrick Boutet
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Gary Driggs wrote: > There isnt anything posted to the files section of the sourceforge project > yet but this sounds promising; http://goo.gl/TtBlV > > -Gary > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscrib