Re: [parisc-linux] LinuxTag

[David Mintz <david_mintz@hotmail.com>]

Why don't you boot from tape?  That's what I did.  I was able to get the 
spinning curser on an s800 by dd'ing the bootstrap_4_bin file to tape and 
then booting it.  I tried putting the kernal image on there too but it 
doesn't seem to really pass control to it.

-David Mintz


>From: Matthew Wilcox <Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com>
>To: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
>Subject: [parisc-linux] LinuxTag
>Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:22:37 +0200
>
>
>HP have invited me to be at their stand for LinuxTag in Kaiserslautern,
>Germany on the 26th/27th of June.  I'd like to be able to demonstrate
>something, even if it's just the bootloader and a spinning cursor.
>
>I guess what I want is another machine that is attached to the webconsole
>and a network between them to allow the A180 to netboot.  Or does someone
>have a better idea?  (Would these management cards someone mentioned be
>any use?)
>
>----- Forwarded message -----
>
>Now I have some more questions:
>- What HW do you need exactly? You wrote a A180. This is o.k., but are
>there other necessaries you need in the A180? And which linux version do
>you need on this server?
>- Could you install the SW on the server?
>
>----- End forwarded message -----
>
>--
>Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
>"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
>specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
>painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N 
>Stephenson
>
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