On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 10:55:38PM -0400, David HM Spector wrote:
>
> Um, not that I have any political axe to grind about distributions (I
> don't) but there's a bit more to upgrading a netwinder than just
> installing a mess o'debs or rpms -- I would most certainly need to get
In Debian's case, you: boot the rescue images, wipe the drive, and install
what you want.
> a new copy of the netwinder firmware and probably other things
> ...which is why I am looking for a mirror of netwinder.org.
Have you tried following the Debian instructions?
I installed Debian on the 2 Netwinders sitting next to me (used to build
Familiar) without upgrading any firmware, or messing with much of anything.
The only mildy-interesting parts were setting up DHCP and TFTP to serve the
right info. The single gotcha I ran into, was that on the older of the two I
had to enable backwards compatibility on the ext2 FS holding the kernel,
otherwise the firmware got confused.
Alexander
Received on Fri Jul 13 21:13:09 2001
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