On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 08:44:49PM +0100, Kurt De Pauw wrote: > Hello, Hi, i think you are Digger_RS6000 which i saw on irc, right ?
> First of all I would like to tell you that I'm not a linux guru, nor do I > have a linux system running @ this very moment. > > I have bought myself a IBM RS/6000 F40 Server , with 2 storage cabinets. This seems to be a Power3 machine, and definitively not prep or 32bit chrp, you thus need to get a netinst cd and boot with install64 : http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/etch_d-i/powerpc/beta1/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso or use the netboot images from : http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-powerpc/beta1/images/powerpc64/netboot64/ Mmm, the etch beta1 has not the yaboot files for netboot i added to the daily builds, strange, you can get those from here : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc64/netboot64/ Please submit an installation report once you are done : http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.html#submit-bug Documentation and such are linked from the debian-installer web page (as well as most of the above links : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ I hope this helps, but if in any case you are going to not want that machine, as you mentioned on irc, i would be very interested in it, as an IBM chrp and a 64bit machine are still missing in my powerpc collection, at least for those machines officially supported by debian, and it would come handy for debian-installer and kernel testing, or even for work on the biarch/multiarch userland. > On this server I would like to install Debian. > > I downloaded all kind of versions , but the Server does not want to boot > from the cdrom. Then try the netboot, did you not even get the yaboot prompt ? Or just tried to boot the 32bit kernel on it from the yaboot prompt (install instead of install64). > Is there somebody over here who would like to tell me step by step how to > install Debian on such a machine? I will be glad to do that :) > Please note that I don't have another Linux system for creating additional > floppy's or whatever. So, no tftp server to netboot from ? Maybe a windows box with a tftp/bootp server ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
