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3.2 Booting gNewSense from TFTP

Find your way to the gNewSense MIPS linux image directory1 and download the vmlinux-2.6.31.6-libre1 image and initrd.gz file and upload it to your TFTP server.

When you power up the machine, press down the <DEL>-button and you will enter PMON command prompt. Type the following for setting up the IP address of your YeeLoong

     ifaddr rt10 192.168.1.31

Or what ever you want the IP address to be

Then type the following to load the image from your TFTP server

     load tftp://192.168.1.31/vmlinux-2.6.31.6-libre1

To load the initrd, type the following

     initrd tftp://192.168.1.31/initrd.gz

Now, to start the installer, execute:

     g console=tty no_auto_cmd

And the gNewSense installer will appear. Continue to next step.


Footnotes

[1] http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense-metad/installer/current/mipsel/loongson/netboot/