Slackware installation via telnet?
Hello,
I want to install slackware on an embedded device. It is a PPC architecure, so I'll use the binaries provided by slackintosh. The embedded device already has a very rudimentary linux 2.4 running, I can access it via telnet and ftp. I would like to install Slackware 10.2 and kernel 2.6. I have to use a patched kernel for the embedded platform, so I cannot use the original linux kernel. How can I install Slackware (Slackintosh) on this device, when I can't boot the standart slack kernel (and I can't boot from floppy, cdrom, etc)? What would I have to do to install slackware via telnet and ftp with a custommade kernel? Thank you very much. |
I am no expert on embedded devices (nor even an amateur) but in these curcumstances don't you usually set it (ie: slackintosh) up on a host system and then manually copy the files over to the device?
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You are right. But my problem is, that I don't have a PPC host system. So I cannot just copy the files.
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Does the device have a serial port. If so, you could try to use a serial console. More information can be found in the Serial Console HOWTO:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/ FWIW, NetBSD also has very good support for this kind of installation. |
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I wonder if you could zip an installed system or the install cd? Then just ftp and unzip the tarball on your storage media. You could then work from there. |
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