Re: [parisc-linux] HP 710 and miscellaneous questions ...

["Jim Buttafuoco" <jim@buttafuoco.net>]

Jeremy,

The 710 doesn't seem to work just yet.  A number of people are working
on getting both the network and scsi drivers to work.  I am also waiting
for support (I have 2 710's).

Jim

> I see "[t]his mailing list exists to serve the developers." Where is
> the appropriate forum to discuss basic usage?
> 
> I have an HP 700 Series Apollo Model 710. As far as I can tell it has
no
> usable operating system (no HPUX). I can turn it on and connect to a
> series of (CMOS?/BIOS?) prompts and menus via a serial cable. It does
not
> have a CD drive. I do not have HPUX to do any cross-compiles. (I have
> installed a variety of flavours of BSD and Linux hundreds of times,
but
> always on i386 architectures.)
> 
> I want to use Linux (or BSD) on it. The PA-RISC webpages have links
for
> documentation, but none appear to explain a basic install. Where is
the
> documentation for installing Linux on a hard drive?
> 
> The software page (http://www.parisc-linux.org/software/) says
"nfsroot"
> is the easiest way; but the instructions say "you have to build on
> HP/UX."
> 
> Is there simply a filesystem image (with kernel and userspace) that I
can
> dd to a harddrive that I can then use to boot my HP 710)? If so, where
is
> it? (And where is this documented?)
> 
> Also, I see an ISO image at
> ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/cd-images/; is there any
> (easy) way to convert this ISO image to an image that I can dd on to
my
> hardrive (to use to boot)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
> 
> 
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