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billanddave is an HP9000 A500 server with the following hardware:

  • Two 750MHz PA8700 processors
  • 1Gbyte of ECC RAM
  • Two Tulip Ethernet cards
  • Two 146Gbyte SCSI hard drives (unknown hot-swap capabilities on these)
  • A "Guardian Service Processor" which provides network control of power and remote console access
  • Firmware smart enough to boot the machine from the network

Debian 5.0 (Lenny) Installation process:

  • Install a TFTP server that can be reached by broadcast from the A500
    • atftpd was used here
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