HP 9000 systems
Hi,
I recently ran across some HP 9000 715/80 and 712/60 computers at a garage sale and bought 4 systems for 70 dollars. There is no operating system on the computers and no cd-rom drive. My question is how can a get PA-Risc Linux installed on these machines because I can't seem to get the systems to boot from the floppy drive. What is the best way to get PA-Risc Linux installed on the systems. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Derrick McCray
Quoted 7 lines · On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:10:14AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
I recently ran across some HP 9000 715/80 and 712/60 computers at a garage sale and bought 4 systems for 70 dollars. There is no operating system on the computers and no cd-rom drive. My question is how can a get PA-Risc Linux installed on these machines because I can't seem to get the systems to boot from the floppy drive. What is the best way to get PA-Risc Linux installed on the systems. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Floppy is not correctly supported.
You should be able to network boot them without much trouble. See
<http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PA-RISC-Linux-Boot-HOWTO/> for pointers. You can start a debian install by booting a lifimage from:
<http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-hppa/3.0.22-2002-04-03/lifimage>
Richard
Quoted 3 lines · On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:10:14AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
I recently ran across some HP 9000 715/80 and 712/60 computers at a garage sale and bought 4 systems for 70 dollars. There is no operating system on the
Way to go!
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computers and no cd-rom drive. My question is how can a get PA-Risc Linux installed on these machines because I can't seem to get the systems to boot from the floppy drive. What is the best way to get PA-Risc Linux installed on the systems. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Either you get a SCSI CD-ROM to boot from and use the 0.9.3 or better ISO image or your boot from a DHCP/BOOTP server:
http://pateam.esiee.fr/parisc-linux-boot/parisc-linux-boot.html#BOOTNETWORK
Warning: This may not be for the faint of heart.
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