[parisc-linux] HP 710 and miscellaneous questions ...

[Jeremy C. Reed]

I see "[t]his mailing list exists to serve the developers." Where is
the appropriate forum to discuss basic usage?

I have an HP 700 Series Apollo Model 710. As far as I can tell it has no
usable operating system (no HPUX). I can turn it on and connect to a
series of (CMOS?/BIOS?) prompts and menus via a serial cable. It does not
have a CD drive. I do not have HPUX to do any cross-compiles. (I have
installed a variety of flavours of BSD and Linux hundreds of times, but
always on i386 architectures.)

I want to use Linux (or BSD) on it. The PA-RISC webpages have links for
documentation, but none appear to explain a basic install. Where is the
documentation for installing Linux on a hard drive?

The software page (http://www.parisc-linux.org/software/) says "nfsroot"
is the easiest way; but the instructions say "you have to build on
HP/UX."

Is there simply a filesystem image (with kernel and userspace) that I can
dd to a harddrive that I can then use to boot my HP 710)? If so, where is
it? (And where is this documented?)

Also, I see an ISO image at
ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/cd-images/; is there any
(easy) way to convert this ISO image to an image that I can dd on to my
hardrive (to use to boot)?

Thanks,

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/