Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-06-08 Thread T
On Thu, 11 May 2023 13:34:48 +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: >> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:03:21PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: >> > Hi! >> > >> > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >> > wrote: >>

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-06-07 Thread T
On Thu, 11 May 2023 14:41:19 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 08:21 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> Well I have seen lots of people say woody worked on that machine. >> Not sure how late support for that hardware stuck around. After all >> 192MB ram and 133MHz 604

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-12 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 12/05/2023 à 00:50, Ben Westover a écrit : Arch Linux's unofficial ppc port lists instructions for installing on PReP machines [1], so unless they're inaccurate I would assume Linux still supports PREp.     A PREp partition does not contain any filesystem; it is just something on which you

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Ben Westover
On 5/11/23 7:26 AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: I suspect it is hopeless, as far as I remember PReP support disappeared when the ppc and ppc64 kernel trees were merged into the single powerpc architecture. Arch Linux's unofficial ppc port lists instructions for installing on PReP machines [1], so u

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 02:05:01PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > That might be possible, but you need a PReP boot partition on your > disk (type 0x41), to which you directly copy the kernel if memory > serves. Later releases put yaboot or grub2 on that partition so you actually got a proper boot

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:34:48PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:03:21PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 08:21 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well I have seen lots of people say woody worked on that machine. > Not sure how late support for that hardware stuck around. After all > 192MB ram and 133MHz 604 is not a lot of resources. I am not sure how > late Debian would have sup

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:01:45PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > I am the proud owner of this ancient machine on which I am attempting to > install Debian. This machine is equipped with a Gotek floppy emulator > and a ZuluSCSI emulator (for HDD and CD-ROM) for convenience reasons. > For refere

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 11/05/2023 12:34, Alexander Huemer wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:03:21PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: Hi! On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Alexander! On Thu, 2023-05-11 at

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:03:21PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi Alexander! > > > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 12:01 +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > > > CD-ROM based installation is supported for most archi

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Alexander Huemer
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:03:21PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > Hi Alexander! > > > > > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 12:01 +0200, Alexan

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Alexander Huemer
Hi! On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Alexander! > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 12:01 +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > > CD-ROM based installation is supported for most architectures. > > > > Again, I don't know if CD-ROM based installation is expected

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Alexander! On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 12:01 +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > CD-ROM based installation is supported for most architectures. > > Again, I don't know if CD-ROM based installation is expected work on > PReP. [5] doesn't contain any ISO images. I've tried [6] though that > doesn't b