From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from boispop1.bois.uswest.net (boispop1.bois.uswest.net [207.108.224.1]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 91F5E482A for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 20:16:46 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 20:16:39 -0600 To: Andrew Shugg Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Booting 735/99 Message-ID: <20010413201639.A3780@beavis.ybsoft.com> Reply-To: rbradetich@uswest.net References: <007701c0c415$3f4779a0$1401a8c0@peewee> <20010413233152.F8797@neep.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20010413233152.F8797@neep.com.au>; from andrew@neep.com.au on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:31:54PM +0800 From: Ryan Bradetich List-ID: I believe the 735 requires rbootd. I know debian has a package for this and I think a redhat rbootd package can be found at: ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/tgz/rbootd-2.0-2.tar.gz - Ryan On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:31:54PM +0800, Andrew Shugg wrote: > Matthew van de Werken said: > > I have a 735/99, onto which I'd like to install hppa-linux. However, I don't > > have any of the usual methods of installing software (I have no bootable > > CD-ROM, no tape, no network (without linux - chicken and egg problem). > > > > Hwever, I *do* have a SCSI disk and a linux-x86 box onto which I can mount > > this disk temporarily. What I'd like to be able to do is to dump a disk > > image onto this disk, then transfer it to the 735, and boot from there. Is > > this possible? Is there a disk image somewhere I can use for this? > > By "no network" do you mean the 735 doesn't have a network interface? > Or it does, but there's no network for you to connect it to? > > If you're able to move that i386 Linux box to where the 735 is, or > vice-versa, so that you can connect them via Ethernet, then that would > likely be the easiest option. Then with a bootp server (or a dhcpd that > can do bootp, eg the ISC dhcp server) on the Linux box you can serve the > 735 a kernel to boot from and an NFS filesystem to mount. > > As far as making that SCSI disk bootable to the HP, I have no idea if > this would work but you could try taking the current (out-of-date) CD > image from the FTP site and just writing it to the SCSI disk with dd. > I don't think a partition table written on the i386 would be readable by > the HP box though. > > Andrew. > > -- > Andrew Shugg http://www.neep.com.au/ > > "Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself." > "Is there? Well I'd like to meet him. I could do with a good laugh." > > > _______________________________________________ > parisc-linux mailing list > parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org > http://lists.parisc-linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux > --