[parisc-linux] Hi

Matthew Wilcox Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com
Wed, 12 May 1999 22:06:14 +0200


On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 07:42:27PM +0000, Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> > I don't however have anything
> > to boot right now - apparently this disc was used for swap when this
> > workstations was running HP-UX in the dim distant past (you should see
> > the dust).

> I think you have the choice to either wait til Linux is bootable or get a
> second hard disk and an HP-UX on it. The disks should be narrow SCSI so the
> second disk shouldn't really be much of a problem.

That might be feasible.  Is there no netbooting software available?
I've used RARP, BOOTP and TFTP to load a sun3 kernel before and the
HP seems to be looking for a network host to respond.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson