[parisc-linux] installing on b2600 fails

[Grant Grundler]

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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

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