From: Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>
To: no one <neverbefound@subdimension.com>
Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Newbie found an hp 712-80 :)
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 07:28:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021113062859.GD25768@charite.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021112221141.2d2792f0.neverbefound@subdimension.com>
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:11:41PM +0000, no one wrote:
> Yesterday I realised that the cute little box sitting by the bin for
> 3 weeks was actually a computer - a hp 712-80 to be precise; and I am
Yes, that happened here as well. The HP-UX on the box was toast.
> It came with no floppy, no harddrive, and no memory - I've bought a
> el-cheapo 2nd hand generic 2Gb SCSI drive; and now need to squeeze
> linux onto it :)
You still need memory :)
> As soon as I find myself some simms, I'll be able to get past the
> pretty hardware-failure screen (look! it even draws where the
> failing/missing part is on the motherboard!) and have the following
> installation method planned out.
I like that.
> 1) Setup dhcpd on my slackware box to serve the 'lifimage' for the latest net-boot iso
> 2) Lan-Boot the 712 with a crossover-cable into the main computer, via dhpcd
> (don't want to confuse true lan dhpcd requests...)
> 3) This lifimage will load a kernel and a initrd with the standard debian install tools.
> 4) I could now 'ifconfig eth0 down', plug the hp into the actual lan, bring the net connection back up (dhcp or static lan config...)
> 5) Do a install from my closest debian mirror.
Yup.
> I'm sure there must be a fatal flaw in there somewhere... after
> reading through all those fearful references to NFS-roots et al., it
> seems so simple now that I've written it down :)
>
> Also, I read somewhere that you can flash the latest firmware to the
> machine by serving it the firmware as a net-boot image - is this
> correct?
Yes. Simply make the HP boot the firmware upgrade via tftp.
> Would it be safer by some other method? - for instance (no
> idea of actual possibility), copy the firmware to /boot & get AILO
> (sic?) to boot it...
On HP it's PALO.
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2002-11-12 22:11 [parisc-linux] Newbie found an hp 712-80 :) no one
2002-11-13 6:28 ` Ralf Hildebrandt [this message]
2002-11-13 7:41 ` Derek Engelhaupt
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