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Well, still struggling. Crux looks nice but it's not as easy as I thought to get started. For NFS booting, I would need a specially crafted kernel, for which I have to install a Linux virtual machine (I'm usually on Windows and FreeBSD - could investigate cygwin by any chance) with a cross-compiler. I tried the kernel on the ISO but the Efika did not seem to recognize it. If all else fails...
Why? All CRUX PPC bootkernels include NFS client support. You need a TFTP/NFS server or only a NFS server if you put the bootkernel on a usb pendrive.
Anyway i find this solution the simplest one:
[Hard Drive install from USB pendrive]
http://cruxppc.org/EfikaInstall#m3
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Then, I took the option of the USB stick. I read that it had to be formatted in ext2, so I tried to format it and store a dummy file to check that I could read it... but I don't see the file. I thought the Efika could read both FAT32 and ext2 file systems: is that right? If yes, what parameters should I use for the file system? Crux mentions inodes of 128 byte but my mkfs does not support less than 1024. Any recommendation for the block size also?
[Installation process works effortlessly but the SmartFirmware/U-Boot is unable to read (and boot) the content of the ext2 partitions, how can i do?]
http://cruxppc.org/FAQ#q29
Code:
# mkfs.ext2 -I 128
btw, welcome to CRUX :)
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