[parisc-linux] Booting 735/99

[Ryan Bradetich]

I believe the 735 requires rbootd.  I know debian has a package for this
and I think a redhat rbootd package can be found at:

ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/tgz/rbootd-2.0-2.tar.gz

- Ryan

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:31:54PM +0800, Andrew Shugg wrote:
> Matthew van de Werken said:
> > I have a 735/99, onto which I'd like to install hppa-linux. However, I don't
> > have any of the usual methods of installing software (I have no bootable
> > CD-ROM, no tape, no network (without linux - chicken and egg problem).
> > 
> > Hwever, I *do* have a SCSI disk and a linux-x86 box onto which I can mount
> > this disk temporarily. What I'd like to be able to do is to dump a disk
> > image onto this disk, then transfer it to the 735, and boot from there. Is
> > this possible? Is there a disk image somewhere I can use for this?
> 
> By "no network" do you mean the 735 doesn't have a network interface?
> Or it does, but there's no network for you to connect it to?
> 
> If you're able to move that i386 Linux box to where the 735 is, or
> vice-versa, so that you can connect them via Ethernet, then that would
> likely be the easiest option.  Then with a bootp server (or a dhcpd that
> can do bootp, eg the ISC dhcp server) on the Linux box you can serve the
> 735 a kernel to boot from and an NFS filesystem to mount.
> 
> As far as making that SCSI disk bootable to the HP, I have no idea if
> this would work but you could try taking the current (out-of-date) CD
> image from the FTP site and just writing it to the SCSI disk with dd.
> I don't think a partition table written on the i386 would be readable by
> the HP box though.
> 
> Andrew.
> 
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> Andrew Shugg <andrew@neep.com.au>                   http://www.neep.com.au/
> 
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