From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: To: Armijn Hemel Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] installing on b2600 fails In-Reply-To: Message from Armijn Hemel of "Tue, 21 May 2002 17:53:28 +0200." <20020521175328.A2442@humbolt.geo.uu.nl> References: <20020521154508.99536482A@dsl2.external.hp.com> <20020521175328.A2442@humbolt.geo.uu.nl> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:05:53 -0600 From: Grant Grundler Message-Id: <20020521180553.5470F482A@dsl2.external.hp.com> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: [ back on-list ] Armijn Hemel wrote: > Just burn them? How should I boot then? The b2600 doesn't have a floppy > drive. Don't I need PALO on the CD? yes. CD or LAN. The lifimage has palo and vmlinux embedded in it, parisc firmware can boot a lifimage from LAN, tape, CD or HD. Any IO device the box has IODC for. "boot floppies" is a gross misnomer for parisc since that's probably the only media I've never tried to boot from. I don't know off hand which platforms support booting from floppy. I would guess 712 and similar vintage supports that if the lifimage could fit on a 1.44MB floppy. > Or do you mean I should just put > the floppy images on a server somewhere and boot those from the network? booting from a network is an option too. > I'm quite desperate to be honest (and I think it shows). The machines I > have have to be returned to HP in .nl soon (they're from the demo pool, > trying to port yet another distro (ROCK Linux) to HPPA). cool - keep the p-l mailing list posted on your progress. grant > > armijn > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > armijn@nl.linux.org | http://people.nl.linux.org/~armijn/ | Penguin Power > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://nl.linux.org/ | Alles over Linux > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------