Installer on sparc?

Been messing around today with the installer on sparc.. Progress? Maybe. Tired? Absolutely! Made some progress too!

Got stage1 compiled and kernel prepared, now I'll be looking more into having it actually working.

Getting silo to work the way I want it to over netboot seems to be harder than expected:(

[root@blade100-1 tftpboot?]# tilo vmlinux-2.6.16-15mdk all.rdz-2.6.16-15mdk nm: vmlinux-2.6.16-15mdk: no symbols Converting vmlinux-2.6.16-15mdk (sun4cdm) to a.out: PT 0 Entry: Loadable to 0x4000000x3c34e0? from 0x00x376085? align 0x100000 PT 1 Entry: unknown Compressing vmlinux-2.6.16-15mdk.raw: vmlinux-2.6.16-15mdk.raw: 52.8% nm: vmlinux-2.6.16-15mdk: no symbols Sizes (sun4cdm): raw size = 3612805 packed size = 1702998 root address = Root image packed size = 3359778 ERROR: Original size and root address must be specified for Sun4c

Same happens no matter what I do it seems, arg, enough for tonight.I've submitted patches for stage1 to olivier blin, with some luck I might just have a working installer for sparc going! :)

Also started to looking at and fulfilling new club requests now that they're showing up again, first one out is SeaMonkey!

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