On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 03:09:38PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > > On a related, PPC, note, is it possible to net-boot an imac with > Linux? NetBSD works fine, but I'm not sure about the latest status of > Linux. yes, it involves setting up bootp, tftp and yaboot, check recent debian-powerpc archives where BenH posted a note on the yaboot configuration option for that. here is a quote: ---begin--- Several things: - Configure your bootp/tftp server so that it assigns an IP address to the machine and download yaboot binary to the client as the default boot image. - On the tftp server, along with yaboot itself, put yaboot.conf, the kernel and eventually the ramdisk - In yaboot.conf, use path of the form "enet:file" (or "enet:0,file" if you are having problems with the first one). Example of yaboot.conf I use for netboot: image = enet:vmlinux label = linux initrd = enet:ramdisk.image.gz initrd-size = 8192 ---end--- -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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