Lisa.Hsu@taec.toshiba.com wrote: > > Thanks to Henning for showing me where to get the big-endian compiled > packages and it works. Now, I need big-endian compiled "ash". > Is anybody know where I can get it? > > Thanks, > > Lisa > > > heinold@physik.tu- > cottbus.de To: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com > (H.Heinold) cc: > Sent by: Subject: Re: NFSROOT filesystem > owner-linux-mips@o > ss.sgi.com > > > 03/01/01 01:24 AM > > > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 07:00:13PM -0800, Lisa.Hsu@taec.toshiba.com wrote: > > > > Hi, All > > > > For using NFS boot, I've already edited the /etc/hosts, /etc/exports to > add > > the entry for my target board. The command line that I use in our EPROM > > based bootloader is as follows: > > > > root=/dev/nfs rw ip=::::::rarp console=ttyS2 > > nfsroot=209.243.136.151:/work/nfsroot > > > > I need to setup the NFSROOT filesystem on the server for my target board > > (which is running in Big-endian mode), what are the steps that I have to > > do? > > > For big endian you need big endian complied packages, you can retrieve the > debian base2_2.2.tgz > under ftp.uni-mainz.de/pub/Linux/debian-local/mips, which should work fine > as nfsroot. I have some > problems with open a console beacause on Indigo2 you only have output on > the serial console. > > > There is a FTP site for getting RPM packages for little endian mode: > > > > > tp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/[ig/linux/mips/mipsel-linux/RedHat-6.1/RPMS > > > > I could not find similar one for big-endian. Can anybody give me a > > pointer to where the RPM packages reside on the web? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > No prob. > > > Lisa > > > > > > Lisa, You can get either big endian or little endian NFS root fs on the following site. ftp://ftp.mvista.com/pub/Area51/mips_fp_le ftp://ftp.mvista.com/pub/Area51/mips_fp_be Jun
