Debian on an HP 9000 A500
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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