Re: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-08-30 Thread Bürgin Daniel (KTSS 1)
Hi Rolf My 44p-170 is now booting (thanks to you and German for your work !!) and i could install debian. My Problem now is my graphic-adapter. I have a GTX3000P PCI Card inside my RS6000. When i use the console over the serial Interface to a second my Linux-Labtop, everything works. But when i

Re: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-08-22 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
El mié, 07-08-2002 a las 11:22, German Poo Caaman~o escribió: > [...] > > Well, I can boot from the network again. However, this time I boot the > > image with the 'noinitrd' and 'root' kernel parameters specified. > > In this stage I'm still with problems, so I'm booting my machine > from the net

Re: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-08-14 Thread John F Davis
/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/14/2002 11:51:29 AM To:debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO The HOWTO can be found at the following URL: http://www.personalized-story-book.com/deb

Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-08-14 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
The HOWTO can be found at the following URL: http://www.personalized-story-book.com/debian/Woody_ibm_chrp_net_inst_HOWTO.html Rolf -- Rolf Brudeseth [EMAIL PROTECTED] pSeries System Engineering & Integration, IBM Enterprise Systems Group Austin, TX

Re: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-08-07 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
El mié, 31-07-2002 a las 17:31, Rolf Brudeseth escribió: > [...] > Make System Bootable > > > The following option in boot-floppies does not work: > - Make System Bootable > > However, if I go to the shell and execute any of the following commands I > am still not able to mak

Re: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-08-05 Thread Thomas Gall
illman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Gall/Rochester/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:        debian-boot@lists.debian.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org From:        Rolf Brudeseth/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:        Re: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO  Link &

Re: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-08-05 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
> > I used the standard POWER3 config file: > > /usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/configs/power3_defconfig > > Other posters have noted that the Debian-provided kernel doesn't > work for chrp or IBM powerpc. Is it the config that's incorrect? > Or are they really binary incompatible? Or is it just that you

Re: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-08-05 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
> > I wonder why it was failing. Once the network is configured, if you have an > ethernet connection, we haven't had any other reports of a total failure > like this. Particularly since wget works in the shell, and wget is also > what the installer uses to fetch files. > > I'm a little reluctant

Re: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-08-03 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 04:31:47PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > This HOWTO explains how to perform a network install of Debian 3.0 (Woody) > on an IBM RS/6000 44P-170 workstation. ... > > I got the latest kernel (2.4.18) from: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ > > I got the ramdis

Re: [The other way] Re: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-08-01 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 04:28:45PM -0400, German Poo Caaman~o wrote: > El mi?, 31-07-2002 a las 17:31, Rolf Brudeseth escribi?: > > This HOWTO explains how to perform a network install of Debian 3.0 (Woody) > > on an IBM RS/6000 44P-170 workstation. > > [...] I'll work on incorporating Rolf's HOWT

[The other way] Re: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-08-01 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
El mié, 31-07-2002 a las 17:31, Rolf Brudeseth escribió: > This HOWTO explains how to perform a network install of Debian 3.0 (Woody) > on an IBM RS/6000 44P-170 workstation. > [...] > Create initial ramdisk image (zImage.initrd) > > > I just happen to

Re: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-08-01 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 04:31:47PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > > > > I would have saved a few key strokes during the install if I had modified > > the config file to enable serial port console. > > It appears that it is enabled in the config file: > > ~snip > > # > > # Character devices > > #

Re: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-07-31 Thread Steve Gore
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 04:31:47PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > > I would have saved a few key strokes during the install if I had modified > the config file to enable serial port console. > It appears that it is enabled in the config file: > ~snip > # > # Character devices > # > CONFIG_VT=y > C

Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-07-31 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
This HOWTO explains how to perform a network install of Debian 3.0 (Woody) on an IBM RS/6000 44P-170 workstation. It should definitely also work for other low-end systems such as the 260, 270 and B80. However, I have not yet tested that. I would also expect it to work on the mid- and high-end POWE