Re: [suse-sparc] Re: sparc 5 without floppy network install

From: Stephen Gallacher (stephen@udcf.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 02:03:31 PST

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    From: Stephen Gallacher <stephen@udcf.gla.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <976701811.3a374973e54ac@lenzie.cent.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:03:31 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Re: sparc 5 without floppy network install

    Quoting Joshua Uziel <uzi@suse.com>:

    > * Stephen Gallacher <stephen@udcf.gla.ac.uk> [001212 03:03]:
    > > Thanks for your reply, but I should have mentioned that I wanted to do
    > > a network install without writing cd's just to get the img file.
    > > i.e. I want to boot the sparc 5 from my boot server, which will only
    > > have the img file and then once the installation starts I will point
    > > the system at suse's ftp site for everything else.
    > > My question should have been "where can I download tftp32.img?"
    >
    > Actually, you don't have to burn the images... just loop mount 'em (as
    > long as your kernel has support for doing this). So on any given
    > machine, do a:
    >
    > mount -o loop suse-us-sparc-7.0-CD1.iso /mnt
    >
    > to mount the first CD in /mnt...
    I got tftp32.img from guenter schaefer, booted from it then found I
    didn't have enough ram for a network install. So I had to download
    the images anyway.
    Solaris being Solaris (it cant directly mount an iso image), I had to use :-
      
    lofiadm -a /<dir/suse-us-sparc-7.0-CD1.iso
    mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt

    This was repeated for each disk image.

    Thanks for your help,

    Stephen.

    Stephen Gallacher
    Server Systems Support Officer
    Computing Service
    University of Glasgow

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