More Multia questions

David Murn (scuffer@hups.apana.org.au)
Sun, 21 Nov 1999 05:17:59 +1100 (EST)

Hi again,
as you may remember from my last post, we recently bought a
couple of Multias. We're trying to install debian on these machines, on a
9gb scsi drive, however these systems do not have floppy drives in them.
It has been possible to boot the machine over the network, however we have
had no luck with doing much with it. The netboot worked fine, then
mounted it's rootdisk over NFS, but failed to do a number of things due to
missing features in the kernel (loopback, etc).

So a new kernel was cross-compiled, and we've got a vmlinux.gz file with
what we need, however milo refuses to boot this kernel.

Firstly, I'm wondering if there is a howto anywhere around which explains
how to boot a machine and install on it, without a floppy drive?

Secondly, is there anything special you need to do to make milo use a
vmlinux.gz file? We're currently playing with aboot, but if we can get
milo to work it would be useful.

Thirdly, can anyone tell me where to get a tool to make the vmlinux file
net-bootable? There must be a tool out there somewhere to do it, since
we've got a pre-made image which is net-bootable. Anyone know what/where
it is?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Davey