From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjorn Christianson Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 17:10:48 +0000 Subject: Update on Ultrapenguin-1.0.9 install on IPX Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org Thanks to the help of various people, my install is happily chunking away as I type. However, I couldn't get the current tftpboot.img to work -- I had to use the tftpboot.img.old. Attempts to use the current image resulted in the IPX downloading the entire image, and hanging at the end. I would then get a "receive failed" message, and the boot process would start, only to pause again at the ramdisk uncompression stage. Wait long enough (~15 min) and get stacks of bad block reports. The machine is an IPX with Weitek W8701 CPU, 32 MB RAM, PROM version 2.3. The boot server was an Intel machine running Linux 2.0.33, with netkit-tftp-0.10. I tried the tftpboot.img from both ultra.linux.cz and ftp.cobaltmicro.com (both size 2582793). I'd be glad to help with any other questions. Bjorn ---- bjorn@cascade.psychology.mcmaster.ca http://lands.dyn.ml.org/bjorn "Remember, kids, don't drink and operate complex alien spacecraft." -- Jonathon Rosenberg, "Goats"