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Re: Problems using etherboot 3.1 - long



> This looks like a mixup in the etherboot package. Please get the complete
> netboot package from sunsite and try again. The configure script can only
> run when you have the full netboot sources.

Ehm, I figured etherboot was the entire package. My mistake.

> Linux system. Since HP-UX understands hex with the mknod command, you could
> alternatively also issue the command
>
> 	mknod udp c 0 0x1204
>
> For everybody having the same problem also with other servers, maybe the
> following small program might be useful. It does not depend on the re-
> presentation of the MKDEV system macro on each different platform, but
> rather always uses the way, Linux wants device codes to be assembled.

It worked just fine. Thank you!

> Try an uncompressed filesystem image. I don't think Linux can handle
> compressed ones.
>
> gero.

It can. Works just fine here.

Regards,
	Bo



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