[parisc-linux] HP 9000 systems

[parisc-linux] HP 9000 systems

[DerrickMcCray]

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Hi, 
I recently ran across some HP 9000 715/80 and 712/60 computers at a garage 
sale and bought 4 systems for 70 dollars. There is no operating system on the 
computers and no cd-rom drive. My question is how can a get PA-Risc Linux 
installed on these machines because I can't seem to get the systems to boot 
from the floppy drive. What is the best way to get PA-Risc Linux installed on 
the systems. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Derrick McCray

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Re: [parisc-linux] HP 9000 systems

[Richard Hirst]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:10:14AM -0400, DerrickMcCray@aol.com wrote:
> Hi, 
> I recently ran across some HP 9000 715/80 and 712/60 computers at a garage 
> sale and bought 4 systems for 70 dollars. There is no operating system on the 
> computers and no cd-rom drive. My question is how can a get PA-Risc Linux 
> installed on these machines because I can't seem to get the systems to boot 
> from the floppy drive. What is the best way to get PA-Risc Linux installed on 
> the systems. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Floppy is not correctly supported.

You should be able to network boot them without much trouble.  See
<http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PA-RISC-Linux-Boot-HOWTO/> for pointers.  You
can start a debian install by booting a lifimage from:
<http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-hppa/3.0.22-2002-04-03/lifimage>

Richard

Re: [parisc-linux] HP 9000 systems

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:10:14AM -0400, DerrickMcCray@aol.com wrote:
> Hi, 
> I recently ran across some HP 9000 715/80 and 712/60 computers at a garage 
> sale and bought 4 systems for 70 dollars. There is no operating system on the 

Way to go!

> computers and no cd-rom drive. My question is how can a get PA-Risc Linux 
> installed on these machines because I can't seem to get the systems to boot 
> from the floppy drive. What is the best way to get PA-Risc Linux installed on 
> the systems. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Either you get a SCSI CD-ROM to boot from and use the 0.9.3 or better
ISO image or your boot from a DHCP/BOOTP server:

http://pateam.esiee.fr/parisc-linux-boot/parisc-linux-boot.html#BOOTNETWORK

Warning: This may not be for the faint of heart.

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