Sparc netboot image

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

Goetze, Jens wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question regarding netboot on UltraSPARC T1 (T2000). I found already
> a documentation on a Ubuntu page
> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Sparc) that describes how it
> is possible to install Ubuntu on a T2000 via network. For that it was used a
> sparc netboot image with (I think) a special format. But I didn't found any
> information about the format of this netboot image. Now my question: how can
> I build that kind of netboot image? Or where I can find a description to
> produce that kind of netboot image!
> 

It's an a.out kernel with attached an initramfs. You can check the script that
create this image in debian-installer sources.

Fabio

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