[ale] Debian HPPA Installation

Brian Pitts bpitts at learnlink.emory.edu
Thu Jan 25 13:00:46 EST 2007


That sounds pretty cool; I'll check them out.
> MicroCenter has a dual-ended serial x-over cable for around $20.

I thought CD would be best, but then I'm stuck trying to find a SCSI-3 
CD-ROM drive. Netboot would mean an BNC to RJ45 adapter, which seem 
pretty pricey.

> I had one of those about six years ago.  Even though I followed the 
> progress of pa-risc linux for a long time, I never tried it on the 
> machine, because hp-ux was supposedly a lot faster on it (and it was 
> still a snail).
>
> As for installing Deb, I think the options were CD (highly preferred) 
> or putting the HD in another machine writing a disk image to it.  I 
> think they may have even got netboot running too.
>
> --Keith
-Brian



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