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