On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 01:49:47PM -0500, RR wrote: > Hello, > > this may be a very obvious one of those things that I should just "Google" > but given my last experience, and unsuccessful Googling, I figured maybe I > should ask the community as to what the CORRECT way to install Debian on a > Sun machine such that it uses the ISO/Distribution on my local NFS server as > opposed to just picking up the boot.img and then have the rest of it be > downloaded from the Internet. I have a LOT of SUN machines to install and > it'd be cool if I can just install them off the distro on the nfs server. > > The way my boot server is setup is, that it has tftp, /etc/ethers and > /etc/hosts files all setup.
You'll also need either bootparamd or dhcpd set up. > I have the boot.img from Debian Lenny for sparc > in /tftpboot and also have the hex and decimal/AF_INET format of the > intended IP Address soft-linked to this boot.img in the /tftpboot directory > i.e. 0A01030B -> boot.img. I've go this as C0A8000F.SUN4M -> sparcroot/boot/tftpboot.img The debug log of the daemons above will tell you exactly whan name the SUN machine is looking for. > I also have the entire debian-DVD-lenny.iso > available and is mounted on /mnt/iso by way of lofiadm so that /mnt/iso has > the contents of the ISO and not the bundled iso image. > > Now, how do I tell the installer to go pick it up from there? I have done a > bit of research and all I see everywhere is mentions of some file called > root.tar.gz and debian-installer and what not...but I can't figure out where > do I get that from. > > I have tried: > ok> boot net Should be enough to get thing started. I hope it prints out that it's trying to in touch with a bootp server. Martin > and > > ok> boot net - install nfsroot=10.1.3.1:/mnt/iso > > and > > ok> boot net install > > Any one wish to comment? > > Thanks so much > \RR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110217231243.GB24381@palantir8
