From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rhirst.linuxcare.com (pc2-hems4-0-cust95.bre.cable.ntl.com [213.107.176.95]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CDA6482A for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 04:35:58 -0600 (MDT) Received: by rhirst.linuxcare.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id EB75EB00C; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:36:52 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:36:52 +0100 From: Richard Hirst To: Gregor Anders , debian-hppa@lists.debian.org Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Message-ID: <20010621113652.K11438@linuxcare.com> References: <20010621024342.I20320@coredump.rrz.uni-koeln.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20010621024342.I20320@coredump.rrz.uni-koeln.de>; from anders@rrz.uni-koeln.de on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:43:42AM +0200 Subject: [parisc-linux] Re: 0.9 and nfsroot-install List-ID: On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:43:42AM +0200, Gregor Anders wrote: > Hi everyone, > > now i grabbed 0.9 pa-rias linux and tried to install it on an 712/60 with > nfsroot. Both, serial and sti fail.... they do not give the option to mount > root via nfs. When i try to mount it manually, i can see the the request is > authentificated on my nfsroot-server, but my hp712 crashes and i cannot do > anything. Does anyone have any idea ? Does anyone have an 0.9 base.tgz with a > recent lifimage ??? Debian woody release doesn't have base.tgz any more. Instead dbootstrap, the installer, invokes debootstrap, which "downloads" the required .debs from somewhere and uses those debs to build the target system. "download" might mean from a cdrom, http, or an nfs mounted file system, for example. I have done installs where I booted the lifimage over the network, and then used nfs to access the .debs, while installing to a local disk. I havn't tried to install on to an nfs mounted root file system; I doubt that anyone has. The reason it doesn't offer you the choice is probably because I didn't define NFSROOT in the boot-floppies build, sorry :( That might also explain your crash. I've turned it on for the next release. The lack of a base.tgz in debian woody has been noted on debian-boot mail list as a problem, especially for the embedded world, where they have used it in the past as an easy way to create an nfsroot. No real solution has emerged yet though. If you have a functional parisc system, then you can run debootstrap manually to create something similar to base.tgz. Another option being discussed atm is to add a feature where you can download a tarball of the required base debs, and then get the debootstrap to "download" from the tarball - helps some people, but not relevant to your problem. Richard