[parisc-linux] Installing...

[parisc-linux] Installing...

[Matt.VanDeWerken]

Hi All:

I have a 735/99 which I'd like to install the Linux port onto, among other
things to verify a new kernel graciously sent to me by Richard Hirst to test
the FW-SCSI port. However, I have a problem, and that is, no CD and no
network...

So, how can I get Linux onto this machine? I have a couple of external SCSI
disks and an x86 box with scsi, so I can use a CD image to create a bootable
disk, but how to do this? Any advice gratefully received...

Cheers,
Matthew van de Werken
Electronics Engineer
CSIRO Exploration & Mining - Gravity Group
1 Technology Court - Pullenvale - Qld - 4069
ph:  (07) 3327 4685     fax:  (07) 3327 4455
email:  m.vandewerken@cat.csiro.au

Re: [parisc-linux] Installing...

[Thomas Marteau]

Hi Matthew,

	Once upon a time, we worked with the same equipment as you've got and
we published some filesystem tarballs. In addition, we wrote a script
called sysintall that does everything well if you can plug an externel
disc on a X86.

The useful links are:
http://www.parisc-linux.org/
http://www.esiee.fr/puffin/
http://mkhppa1.esiee.fr/download.html#fs

Good luck and if you need any help, please mail me, Thomas.
ESIEE Team

RE: [parisc-linux] Installing...

[Matt.VanDeWerken]

Thanks Thomas (so fast!!),

Are these filesystems still current? I've got an old nfs filesystem from
about that time, too, which I've installed before, so I have done it all
before, but I wasn't sure if the 'old' filesystem would work with the newer
kernels (and newer glibc?)

What I would prefer to do, if I can get some instruction, is to use the .iso
image to write to a disk (which I would make bootable - how?), which I could
then use to install to a second external disk.

I guess I should just 'give it a go', and see what happens.

Thanks  again,

Cheers,
Matthew van de Werken
Electronics Engineer
CSIRO Exploration & Mining - Gravity Group
1 Technology Court - Pullenvale - Qld - 4069
ph:  (07) 3327 4685     fax:  (07) 3327 4455
email:  m.vandewerken@cat.csiro.au


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Marteau [mailto:marteaut@esiee.fr]
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 October 2001 7:45 PM
> To: Matt.VanDeWerken@csiro.au
> Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Installing...
> 
> 
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> 	Once upon a time, we worked with the same equipment as 
> you've got and
> we published some filesystem tarballs. In addition, we wrote a script
> called sysintall that does everything well if you can plug an externel
> disc on a X86.
> 
> The useful links are:
> http://www.parisc-linux.org/
> http://www.esiee.fr/puffin/
> http://mkhppa1.esiee.fr/download.html#fs
> 
> Good luck and if you need any help, please mail me, Thomas.
> ESIEE Team
> 

Re: [parisc-linux] Installing...

[Helge Deller]

Hi Matt,

if I'm right you could just use your i386 machine to
copy the iso image of the palinux install cd directly to an 
empty scsi harddrive (e.g. with "dd if=palinux_cd.iso of=/dev/sdX").
Then connect that drive to your pa-box, do a "boot search" in the
bootmenu and boot directly from that harddrive (e.g. "boot scsi.5.0").

Helge

On Tuesday 16 October 2001 11:51, Matt.VanDeWerken@csiro.au wrote:
> Thanks Thomas (so fast!!),
>
> Are these filesystems still current? I've got an old nfs filesystem from
> about that time, too, which I've installed before, so I have done it all
> before, but I wasn't sure if the 'old' filesystem would work with the newer
> kernels (and newer glibc?)
>
> What I would prefer to do, if I can get some instruction, is to use the
> .iso image to write to a disk (which I would make bootable - how?), which I
> could then use to install to a second external disk.
>
> I guess I should just 'give it a go', and see what happens.
>
> Thanks  again,
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew van de Werken
> Electronics Engineer
> CSIRO Exploration & Mining - Gravity Group
> 1 Technology Court - Pullenvale - Qld - 4069
> ph:  (07) 3327 4685     fax:  (07) 3327 4455
> email:  m.vandewerken@cat.csiro.au
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Marteau [mailto:marteaut@esiee.fr]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 16 October 2001 7:45 PM
> > To: Matt.VanDeWerken@csiro.au
> > Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
> > Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Installing...
> >
> >
> > Hi Matthew,
> >
> > 	Once upon a time, we worked with the same equipment as
> > you've got and
> > we published some filesystem tarballs. In addition, we wrote a script
> > called sysintall that does everything well if you can plug an externel
> > disc on a X86.
> >
> > The useful links are:
> > http://www.parisc-linux.org/
> > http://www.esiee.fr/puffin/
> > http://mkhppa1.esiee.fr/download.html#fs
> >
> > Good luck and if you need any help, please mail me, Thomas.
> > ESIEE Team
>
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