[Gnewsense-dev] Netboot install successful!

[s . boutayeb]

hi all,

Following the procedures detailed by Robert Millan, I tried the netboot install.

So far, it worked and I have a functional system.

For more information see and feel free to add your input:

http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/GNewSenseToMIPS#toc217

My experience:
- installed the system on /dev/hda4 (from /dev/hda3 resized), with the ext2r0
filesystem (ext3 was rejected in the partition creation step)
- no boot flag added on the partition creation step (I discarded the
corresponding error message)
- I created an user but the D-I don't asked for the root account
- The vmlinux-2.6.27.1-yeeloong kernel was not found during the installation,
resulting in an error message. I just copied the vmlinux kernel image
(downloaded from http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-mipsel-l/netboot/vmlinux
) to the /boot directory)

My /boot/boot.cfg in /dev/hda1 has a new section for this new system:

title debian GNewSense - hda4
  kernel (wd0,3)/boot/vmlinux
  args=console=tty root=/dev/hda4 no_auto_cmd

Congratulations to Robert and all team members for the great work!

Best regards

Samy