On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:05:03AM -0700, dale-gmail wrote: > i have a rs/6000 7248-133 > which is a prep machine. > started with loading it with woody (2.4.x) > by following the following how to: > > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/IBM7248-HOWTO.html > (it is still there)
Thanks, the HOWTO looks great, but unfortunately there seems to be a significant difference between 7248 machines and my 7043 (NetBSD also lists them on different bullet points[1]). I was not able to boot the kernel images linked on that page. But I made some progress today: I was able to boot a SuSE 7.3 kernel as described at [2]. Unfortunately I can't find any SuSE 7.3 PPC CD-Rom images to take the installation any further[3]. When I find some time I'll take a shot at cross-arch debootstrapping by moving the harddisk to another machine. Perhaps this works, but I'll still need to find a kernel that boots. I can only hope that SuSE 7.3 kernel works nicely with a Woody or Sarge. Regards Christian [1] http://www.netbsd.org/ports/prep/hardware.html [2] http://www.solinno.co.uk/7043-140/walkthrough/edsuse73/ [3] http://groups.google.de/group/de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc/browse_thread/thread/1368177309154837# -- ....Christian.Garbs.....................................http://www.cgarbs.de > Es gibt kein Programm unter Linux, das in der Lage ist, komplexere > Word-Dokumente fehlerfrei anzuzeigen. So ein Programm gibt es aber genausowenig unter Windows :-) (Ulli Horlacher in de.comp.os.unix.misc)
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