Re: Debian on RS/6000 E30

2004-09-13 Thread Amadeu Junior
I'll try the new link... Well, the floppy attempt to read the image and nothing... and it don't boot... After, it attempt to read the floppy, it boot a old AIX system... I didn't try the serial console, actually I don't know that... hehehe :-D thanks a lot ... On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:32:57 +0

Re: Debian on RS/6000 E30

2004-09-12 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:53:41PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:45:41AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > > Sven Luther said: > > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 09:45:51PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > > Notice that it should go in the common kernel-source patches instead, > > >

Re: Debian on RS/6000 E30

2004-09-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:45:41AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 09:45:51PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > Notice that it should go in the common kernel-source patches instead, > > and that hch okeyed it, and that Leighh gave a more advanced patch > >

Re: Debian on RS/6000 E30

2004-09-12 Thread Leigh Brown
Sven Luther said: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 09:45:51PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Notice that it should go in the common kernel-source patches instead, > and that hch okeyed it, and that Leighh gave a more advanced patch > which supercedes this one. This was in july, but then it dropped from >

Re: Debian on RS/6000 E30

2004-09-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 09:45:51PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri writes: > > > Just note that on 2.6 my video card is not supported (it's a s3 > > trio), > > Is this one of the whacky combinations that used to be supported by > the e15fb framebuffer driver, or

Re: Debian on RS/6000 E30

2004-09-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 06:50:56PM -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > On Saturday 11 September 2004 06:15, you wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:48:01PM -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > > > Hi Amadeu, > > > > > > I'm not in the debian-powerpc list, but a friend is and forwarded yo

Re: Debian on RS/6000 E30

2004-09-11 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
On Saturday 11 September 2004 06:15, you wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:48:01PM -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > > Hi Amadeu, > > > > I'm not in the debian-powerpc list, but a friend is and forwarded your > > mail to me. > > > > I'm also from Brazil (UNICAMP) and I'm running debian on

Re: Debian on RS/6000 E30

2004-09-11 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri writes: > Just note that on 2.6 my video card is not supported (it's a s3 > trio), Is this one of the whacky combinations that used to be supported by the e15fb framebuffer driver, or a genuine S3 Trio supported by s3fb? > I already submitted those patches to debian

Re: Debian on RS/6000 E30

2004-09-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:48:01PM -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > > Hi Amadeu, > > I'm not in the debian-powerpc list, but a friend is and forwarded your mail > to > me. > > I'm also from Brazil (UNICAMP) and I'm running debian on that machine, I'm > using linux 2.6.6 with the attac

Debian on RS/6000 E30

2004-09-10 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
Hi Amadeu, I'm not in the debian-powerpc list, but a friend is and forwarded your mail to me. I'm also from Brazil (UNICAMP) and I'm running debian on that machine, I'm using linux 2.6.6 with the attached patch. Just note that on 2.6 my video card is not supported (it's a s3 trio), with 2.4 i

Re: Debian on RS/6000 E30

2004-09-10 Thread Leigh Brown
Amadeu Junior said: > Hi ... > > I'm brazilian and my English is horrible !!! > > let's go... > > I'm trying boot a IBM RS/6000 E30 powerpc 604e-233Mhz, 512Mb RAM, > 5*9,1Gb (SCSI), etc... > > I've been reading from > http://home.tiscali.be/philippe_andersson/rs6000.html >and > http://

Re: Debian on RS/6000 E30

2004-09-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:07:23PM -0400, Amadeu Junior wrote: > Hi ... > > I'm brazilian and my English is horrible !!! > > let's go... > > I'm trying boot a IBM RS/6000 E30 powerpc 604e-233Mhz, 512Mb RAM, > 5*9,1Gb (SCSI), etc... > > I've been reading from http://home.tiscali.be/philippe_ande

Debian on RS/6000 E30

2004-09-09 Thread Amadeu Junior
Hi ... I'm brazilian and my English is horrible !!! let's go... I'm trying boot a IBM RS/6000 E30 powerpc 604e-233Mhz, 512Mb RAM, 5*9,1Gb (SCSI), etc... I've been reading from http://home.tiscali.be/philippe_andersson/rs6000.html and http://home.tiscali.be/philippe_andersson/rs6000

Re: Debian on RS/6000 (44P/150)

2003-09-06 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
El sáb, 06-09-2003 a las 11:26, Francesco Parisi escribió: > Before I get Debian/PPC CD set (on CheapBytes) I was wondering if it works > fine on a IBM pSeries RS/6000 44P model 150. AFAIK, there is no Debian CD bootable for RS/6000 44P. You must to boot from Network with another image, or from

Debian on RS/6000 (44P/150)

2003-09-06 Thread Francesco Parisi
Before I get Debian/PPC CD set (on CheapBytes) I was wondering if it works fine on a IBM pSeries RS/6000 44P model 150. Thanks in advance Frank Parisi, Italy

debian on rs/6000

2001-11-14 Thread Javier Baliosian
hi, I have a rs/6000 43p Model 150 and I alredy install a debian on it. but I have some problems with the video. the machine has a Matrox Mystique adapter with 16 Mb of memory but I can not use a definition beyond 800x600 and there is an intense flickering in the monitor (a p92 IBM). I found the

Debian on RS/6000

2001-03-02 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
Well, finally SuSE Linux was installed on RS6000 (7044-170) The machine boots Linux with a Prep partition (lilo worked as well with yaboot). It works ok with console, some graphics cards wasn't recognize by the machine (as Diammond Trio 64+, S3 Virge, Trident Providia, etc). I made a new partit

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-03-01 Thread Christophe Suire
Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Mar 01, German Poo Caaman~o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The next step will be make a FAT partition to copy yaboot as > >the same as Tom answered sometime ago. And finally > >install Debian as you recomended. > You may also first try running it in a chroot, I'm n

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-03-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 01, German Poo Caaman~o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The next step will be make a FAT partition to copy yaboot as >the same as Tom answered sometime ago. And finally >install Debian as you recomended. You may also first try running it in a chroot, I'm not sure the libc from potato will w

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-03-01 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 01, German Poo Caaman~o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I had search by 'Marco' on powerpc, but I got instructions > >for B50 (YDL). But the boot disk proposed (mainly with > >zImage from 2.2 kernel series) doesn't work in a 44P-170 > >because it need chrp64. Furthe

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-03-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 01, German Poo Caaman~o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I had search by 'Marco' on powerpc, but I got instructions >for B50 (YDL). But the boot disk proposed (mainly with >zImage from 2.2 kernel series) doesn't work in a 44P-170 >because it need chrp64. Furthermore, YDL can't boot it. You

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-28 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 27, German Poo Caaman~o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I only want install Debian. > Then please search the archive for this mailing list on > lists.debian.org, I explained many times what you have to do. I had search by 'Marco' on powerpc, but I got instructions for B

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-27 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 27, German Poo Caaman~o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I only want install Debian. Then please search the archive for this mailing list on lists.debian.org, I explained many times what you have to do. -- ciao, Marco

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-27 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > German Poo Caaman~o wrote: > > Christophe Suire wrote: > > > I have install a Debian 2.2rev2 on a B50 using the kernel of YellowDog > > > > How did you do it? > [...] > The problem that you're running into now is that you need to partition your > disk. It has an AIX diskl

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:47:15PM -0300, German Poo Caaman~o wrote: > > Do it need a particular partition like Apple's PowerPC? > (I mean an small partition to store the boot images) i think you need a small bootstrap partition that you directly dd yaboot to (no filesystem dd if=yaboot of=/dev/h

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 23, German Poo Caaman~o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The only kernel that boot on my RS/6000 44P 170 comes from SuSE. >But the install process die when it try to partition the disk. > >I'd like to install it and install Debian after that. You can try with a minimalist suse install and th

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >For the B50 you should be able to use a CHRP kernel and get that to work. The problem is that the original CHRP boot disk for potato is ext2 instead of FAT, and OF can't load the kernel. Even after manually extracting the kernel it does not boot on a B50, I th

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the case of 170 German I'd recommend you stick with SuSE. Debian > does not have the fixed glibc and without that you're dead in > the water. Hi Tom, I knew that as you said me before. But, Debian can be installed over another distribution :-) I'm hoping so > Th

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread Christophe Suire
German Poo Caaman~o wrote: > > Christophe Suire wrote: > > I have install a Debian 2.2rev2 on a B50 using the kernel of YellowDog > > How did you do it? > > The only kernel that boot on my RS/6000 44P 170 comes from SuSE. > But the install process die when it try to partition the disk. > > I'd

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread tom_gall
German Poo Caaman~o wrote: > > Christophe Suire wrote: > > I have install a Debian 2.2rev2 on a B50 using the kernel of YellowDog > > How did you do it? > > The only kernel that boot on my RS/6000 44P 170 comes from SuSE. > But the install process die when it try to partition the disk. Hi Germa

Re: Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread German Poo Caaman~o
Christophe Suire wrote: > I have install a Debian 2.2rev2 on a B50 using the kernel of YellowDog How did you do it? The only kernel that boot on my RS/6000 44P 170 comes from SuSE. But the install process die when it try to partition the disk. I'd like to install it and install Debian after that

Debian on RS/6000 B50

2001-02-23 Thread Christophe Suire
Hi I have install a Debian 2.2rev2 on a B50 using the kernel of YellowDog .. But i'm tring to install yaboot .. and it doesn't work :) (it says that the scsi card ncrXXX is not supported) Someone can help me ? -- Christophe Suire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ingénieur Système-Sécuri

Installation of Debian on RS/6000 7024 E series

2000-08-11 Thread Neo Matrix
I have an old PowerPC RS/6000 7024 E series, and I am trying to install Debian PPC in it. I sure hope somebody can guide me through the installation. I've looked for the installation manual, but it's not in English. Thanks Adam _ Do You Yaho