GRUB boot Debian on a Cisco server 

Debian GRUB boot 
Cisco ip/tv 


34-pin floppy connector
boot linux 

http://www.toms.net/rb/


$ gzip -d tomsrtbt-2.0.103.tar.gz
$ tar xvf tomsrtbt-2.0.103.tar


# ./install.s

Connect an externally powered 3.5" floppy drive to the 
34-pin connector on the Cisco IP/TV server and boot 
with the tomsrtbt floppy. Run fdisk on the scsi hard
drive to be used for the new installation:

# fdisk /dev/sda

Create a new empty DOS partition table, add a new primary 
partition (try +200M), write the table to disk and exit.  
 
Make an ext2 filesystem on the new partition:

# mke2fs /dev/sda1

Mount the new partition to /mnt:

# mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt

Download the kernel, ramdrive image, drivers and
base packages to the partition:

# cd /mnt
# wget http://archvie.debian.org/.../linux.bin
# wget http://archvie.debian.org/.../root.bin
# wget http://archvie.debian.org/.../rescue.bin
# wget http://archvie.debian.org/.../drivers.tgz
# wget http://archvie.debian.org/.../basedebs.tar

Download GRUB files to the partition:

# wget ftp://.../bootlace.com
# wget ftp://.../grldr
# wget ftp://.../grub.exe

Create the menu.lst file on /sda:

# cat <<EOF>> /mnt/menu.lst
># /menu.lst
>title debian3.0
>root (hd0,0)
>kernel /linux.bin
>initrd /root.bin
>EOF

Run bootlace.com on /sda:

# chmod u+x bootlace.com
# ./bootlace.com /dev/sda


reboot /sda into  Debian installer



Select installation medium as: partition on the hard disk,
which should be the '/instmnt' directory. This should point 
the installer to rescue.bin, drivers.tgz, and basedeb.tar.

Add the Intel eePro100 as the network module device driver.  

/etc/apt/sources.list to contain:

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main