Ultralinux tftp boot on an SS2?

Ultralinux tftp boot on an SS2?

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman]

Howdy,

I'm curious if anyone has successfully installed an ultralinux
distribution on a SPARCstation 2.  I have an SS2 at home, and it simply
stops after loading the tftp image -- no errors, it just dies.

I've got a floppy drive, but at last check, there was no floppy install
image for Ultralinux.

Any help would be much appreciated.  Thanks!

-- Lars

-- 
Lars Kellogg-Stedman * lars@bu.edu * (617)353-8277
Office of Information Technology, Boston University

Re: Ultralinux tftp boot on an SS2?

[Randy McCaskill]

I did it over a month ago without any real problems.  I used my pc
(running linux of course) for the tftp server.  I will check if the image
I used is still in my tftp directory when I get home.  If it is, I will
upload it where you can get it.

I also think I remember someone having a problem with not having enough
memory to unpack the ramdisk or something like that so you may want to see
if you can borrow some memory as a test if you don't have a lot.

-Randy

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> I'm curious if anyone has successfully installed an ultralinux
> distribution on a SPARCstation 2.  I have an SS2 at home, and it simply
> stops after loading the tftp image -- no errors, it just dies.
> 
> I've got a floppy drive, but at last check, there was no floppy install
> image for Ultralinux.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.  Thanks!
> 
> -- Lars
> 
> -- 
> Lars Kellogg-Stedman * lars@bu.edu * (617)353-8277
> Office of Information Technology, Boston University
> 
> 
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Re: Ultralinux tftp boot on an SS2?

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman]

>I did it over a month ago without any real problems.  I used my pc
>(running linux of course) for the tftp server.  I will check if the
>image I used is still in my tftp directory when I get home.  If it is,
I will
>upload it where you can get it.

The problem looks like it's part of the tftpboot process...I'm booting
off a Mac running LinuxPPC (tried it with kernel 2.1.103 and 2.1.24);
according to a tcpdump of the install process the tftp fetch hanging
close to the end with the client (the machine I'm trying to install on)
repeatedly ACKing the server.

I *can* get the standard RH4.2/sparc install to boot.  Is there any
chance I can use the older installer with the Ultralinux distribution?

Thanks,

  -- Lars

--
Lars Kellogg-Stedman * lars@bu.edu * (617)353-8277
Office of Information Technology, Boston University

Re: Ultralinux tftp boot on an SS2?

[Randy McCaskill]

Here is the tftpboot file I used with a sparc 2.  Try it and see if it
works for you.

http://www.comm-data.com/~rmccask/ultrapenguin-1.0.9-tftpboot.img

I think that the install script is built into the tftpboot file as a
ramdisk so the one from RH4.2 will probably choke.  It is possible that
the one I have above might not be completely thrilled with any changes
that have been made since I grabbed it, but I suspect that it will work.

-Randy

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:

> The problem looks like it's part of the tftpboot process...I'm booting
> off a Mac running LinuxPPC (tried it with kernel 2.1.103 and 2.1.24);
> according to a tcpdump of the install process the tftp fetch hanging
> close to the end with the client (the machine I'm trying to install on)
> repeatedly ACKing the server.
> 
> I *can* get the standard RH4.2/sparc install to boot.  Is there any
> chance I can use the older installer with the Ultralinux distribution?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   -- Lars
> 
> --
> Lars Kellogg-Stedman * lars@bu.edu * (617)353-8277
> Office of Information Technology, Boston University

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Randy McCaskill
rmccask@comm-data.com              ! Poodle... The other white meat.
http://www.comm-data.com/~rmccask/ !   -- Sherman's Lagoon