This is an old revision of
NFSRoot from 2003-12-28 18:08:39.
This page describes how make a rootfs for the Javastation, using another Debian box.
Decide where to put it
TARGET="/export/javastation"
Make a directory
mkdir -p $TARGET
Install debootstrap
apt-get install debootstrap
Invoke the debian installer
# wget -O /tmp/js-db-script http://www.dnd.utwente.nl/js/files/deboostrap-woody-js
# debootstrap --arch sparc woody $TARGET http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian /tmp/js-db-script
Note: this install is not a basic woody install; it's much more minimalistic and has nullmailer instead of exim.
Note: debootstrap wants to run executables, so do this on a Sun4 box running linux. Work is in progress to install debian from a non-native Sun4 box.
Edit some configfiles:
$TARGET/etc/hostname
$TARGET/etc/fstab
$TARGET/etc/network/interfaces
$TARGET/etc/passwd