From: Daniel R. G. <sk...@is...> - 2007-08-31 00:04:35
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On Fri, 2007 Aug 31 01:25:10 +0200, Florian Boelstler wrote: > > I don't know if a second IDE hard disk is possible at all (besides the > media bay). The PB1400 is quite easy to work with though. > Just move the speaker "grill" (pull up the left end a little bit and > then push it to the left; keyboard is loose now) and by removing a few > screws you'll gain access to all of the interesting parts of the hardware... Interesting, yes, this works :) > Well, there is another option: You may use a standard 2,5" to 3,5" IDE > adapter and connect the PB1400 hard disk to a standard PC. > Not as tricky as NFS from a simple floppy though :) That's definitely a possibility---write an install image to the HD, and boot from that. I'd just have to find that adapter.... Would the procedure then be to write one of the .iso images directly to the HD, i.e. dd if=miboot_28NOV2006.iso of=/dev/hdc ? Or would you have to use a Mac-compatible partitioner first, and write the .iso to the first partition? > > part. Unfortunately, the kernel on the distributed images does not > > appear to have NFS-root support compiled in :( I may have to give > > tftpboot a try.... > > *OUCH* I forgot about that. I can build a proper kernel for you. However > I haven't tried to create a miBoot floppy image yet. Wouldn't it just be a matter of replacing the kernel file in the image? I thought the other kernels available for download were meant to be used this way. Also, might it be easier to pull down a RAM-disk image via TFTP instead? This could more directly use the netboot images provided by Debian, which would be convenient. I've been looking over http://www.schnozzle.org/~coldwell/diskless/ (see the "RAM disk root file system" section) However, it's not clear how one would boot a kernel from a floppy, and then get an initrd from TFTP, instead of getting both from TFTP. I can't find much documentation on this. --Daniel |