in the partition manager, it has a selection of types to choose from.
bsd
msdos
others etc.
which one should i choose for this box, ppc64 ?
yours genuinely bewildered...
chs,
p.
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Sven Luther wrote:
>
> Oh, BTW, the installation manual is mostly still potato-dated for the powerpc
> part, so it would be nice if you could provide your experience in such a way
> that (you, we, me, someone) can integrate it into the official manual for
> etch.
No problem. I'd be glad to share
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 05:03:20PM +1100, Paul (NCC/CS). wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> i can't get this install off the ground and need some help please.
>
>
> I have tried several cd iso downloads and burnt them onto cd
> to try and boot my machine.
>
>
> i downloaded and burned a cd called:
> debian-t
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 03:18:20PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote:
> Hi,
>
> your machine is definetly a CHRP one, so there is no use in following
> the PREP method. I'm not sure but if I remember correctly, the F50
> should be able to boot the CHRP kernel without any problem. You could
> try luth
Hi,
your machine is definetly a CHRP one, so there is no use in following
the PREP method. I'm not sure but if I remember correctly, the F50
should be able to boot the CHRP kernel without any problem. You could
try luthers kernel, which can be found on
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/vmlinuz
Bruhin wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a RS/6000 7020 F50 system with 1 GB RAM and 10 x 9.1 GB HD with
> 3 604e CPUs.
>
> Does someone know a working system with sarge or woody with my hardware
> type?
>
> I would like to use the following ISO: debian-31r0a-powerpc-netinst.iso
>
> It doesn't boot al
On Mon, 2003-08-25 10:03:52 -0300, MARCIO DIAS DE ALMEIDA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello,
>
> I have one rs/6000 43p140, would like to know informations on the
> installation.
>
> I obtained to install the Suse7.3 and I am using, but necessary of a Linux
> wit
Hi Fabricio,
What kind of RS/6000 is it?
Fabricio Scariott wrote:
> Hi.
> I have make a floppy boot disk(boot.bin) and after load boot my machine
> frozen.
> With the file zImage.prep it frozen too.
> The display led is 185
>
> Thanks, Fabricio
>
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Alberto 'JCN-9000' Varesio wrote:
>
> Gerhard Kroder wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > finally i'm trying to get woody on my 43P-133, using current boot disk
> > set (as of May 16).
> > ...
> > What's the problem here? Any hints?
> >
>
> Maybe those images aren't the best ones :(
> Have you tried other
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 04 Chris Tillman wrote:
> > Does anyone have any ideas about getting Debian working on an RS/6000
> > 43P-140? I
> Browse the list for the last month or so. I don't recall if they had any
> success,
> but there were people trying.
http://caesar.elte.hu/~krichard/43p-140/index.
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:28:55AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about getting Debian working on an RS/6000
> 43P-140? I
> rescued one from a junk pile and though it'd make a decent enough Apache box.
> At
> first I thought it was a prep architechture
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:33:33AM -0500, david wrote:
> Hey,
> I've been trying to install Debian to a 7043-240 RS/6000 machine with
> no
> luck. I manage to get to a point where it says "building of device tree..."
> and then it hangs. any help would be appreciated.
I'm not familiar wi
Hi,
On Fri Dec 7 11:04:33 2001 Benny Siegert wrote:
> That would be a great help for RS/6K users like me :-). I am
> volunteering for help -- if I am able to.
Anyways, I have succeeded! :)
My 43P-140 machine is up and running linux :)
Even my dnetc is running. :)
I am planning to write a smal
>>> Shaun Kruger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06.12.2001 17.36 Uhr >>>
> The only questions that remain in my mind are: Is this a common
> problem when installing on RS/6000? Should someone try to make a
> set of boot images specificly for the older RS/6000 systems?
That would be a great help for RS/6K
Am Mittwoch den, 5. Dezember 2001, um 09:48, schrieb Benny Siegert:
2.4 kernel. Do not even _try_ to use a 2.2 kernel with a RS/6000.
It depends on the processor type. I've had a SuSE 6.x (kernel 2.2)
running on a RS/6000 B50 (PPC 604r) for a year (now Debian potato,
kernel 2.4).
Have both of y
I have been having some problems that sound very similar for my RS/6000.
I havn't been able to get any of the debian disks to come up and provide
me a root filesystem running dbootstrap. Before this, when putting the
default CD in I was also getting SCSI errors with the 53C8xx driver. I
found thr
Hi,
On Thu Dec 6 09:18:48 2001 Benny Siegert wrote:
> Nor do I :-). Seriously, I haven't got a kernel to fully boot yet. At
> some time during my tests, I installed AIX. When I switch on the RS/6K
I have a working kernel (2.4.15 with a ppc patch :)!
But: What root floppy to use. I downloaded a
Hi!
>>> Kovacs Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05.12.2001 20.29 Uhr >>>
On Wed Dec 5 09:48:20 2001 Benny Siegert wrote:
>> I also had exactly the same problem. For me, it worked when using a
>> 2.4 kernel. Do not even _try_ to use a 2.2 kernel with a RS/6000.
>
> Forgive my writing to you again, but
Hello!
>>> Kovacs Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04.12.2001 17.54 Uhr >>>
> I am trying to install debian (sid/woody/potato whichever works) on
> an RS/6000 43P-140 IBm powerpc box with a 604e 333MHz processor.
>
> I only have a serial terminal, and the ppc does not have a video card.
[...]
> Alw
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 05:56:45PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Using yaboot/ybin 1.1 I cannot get my rs/6000 to boot from anything other
> than the rescue floppy.
>
> ybin reports success on installing yaboot. I don't know else I could be
> missing here. I guess my yaboot.conf could be w
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Phillip Strauss wrote:
> Aleck, thanks that worked great.
>
> I've hit yet another snag that hopefully someone can help with.
> When I try to configure the kernel and driver modules I get the error
> "Problem no modules found in /target/lib/modules/2.2.15 that could be
ules first."
Checking /target/lib/modules/ I find that the only directory is
'2.2.18pre21'.
Any ideas?
-Original Message-
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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 9:53 AM
To: Phillip Strauss
Cc: Debian-Powerpc
Subject: RE: RS/6000 install h
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Phillip Strauss wrote:
> Aleck, where did you find the PreP Root disk?
> I can't seem to find it. I've tried the normal root disk and it fails.
Phillip, you can get it at:
http://download.unesp.br/linux/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/prep/images-1.44
an-Powerpc
Subject: Re: RS/6000 install help. (con't)
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Phillip Strauss wrote:
> Well yesterday I thought I'd try installing Yellow Dog Linux to see if
maybe
> this was a error specific to the Debian distribution. The only responses
I
> got yesterday were from
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Phillip Strauss wrote:
> Well yesterday I thought I'd try installing Yellow Dog Linux to see if maybe
> this was a error specific to the Debian distribution. The only responses I
> got yesterday were from people with the same problem but no idea what it is.
> Well I wasn't ab
Matthew Davis wrote:
>
> Hey all.
>
> I am trying for the first time to install Debian Potato on a 4-way IBM
> F50. I made the rescue.bin and root.bin disks, and I burned a cd with
> all the other necessities (base2_2.tgz, drivers.tgz, etc). I am having
> trouble right off the bat however, as I
> -Original Message-
> From: Hartmut Koptein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 5:02 PM
> To: Debian-PowerPC ML
> Subject: RS/6000 and other systems
> We need people who do tests with the current boot-floppies. And we need
> reports about it. What does work, wha
> > Many thanks also for the other people that will do some tests.
>
> I echo my question of where ones newer than October are publicly available.
Net yet, sorry. We must first generate new kernel-iamges.
> > For kevin: your mail-address isn't reachable.
>
> What did you get? [EMAIL PROT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Many thanks also for the other people that will do some tests.
I echo my question of where ones newer than October are publicly available.
> For kevin: your mail-address isn't reachable.
What did you get? [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be it, and *should* work. I just
On 4/1/2000 Hartmut Koptein wrote:
We need people who do tests with the current boot-floppies. And we need
reports about it. What does work, what not.
I need reports for prep and power-mac systems.
I need also help in what system goes in what categories as chrp, pmac and
prep.
I tried
Hi,
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> > 7248-133 (i.e rs6000 43p). i guess yours is a simmilar machine and what
> We need people who do tests with the current boot-floppies. And we need
> reports about it. What does work, what not.
> I need reports for prep and power-mac systems.
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> * I did "tar zxvf base..." onto the second partition.
I had problems in the beginning because I forgot the 'p' switch when I
untarred the base.
Michel
=
"Software is like sex; it's better when it's free"
-- Linus Torvalds
"If you continue running Windows
> >
> > Which rs/6k is chrp, which one is prep???
>
> IIRC 40P / 43P brand names cover a wide range of workstations,
>
> 40P was a pre release PC like workstation and should be PReP
>
> 7248-100,7248-120,7248-132 are PReP and boot a PPC kernel
>
> 7043-140,7043-240 should still be PReP, but
> I've tested the instlation floppies on a mac8500.
Ahh, good.
> Currently the rescue floppy is unreadable.
>
> when you fdflush /dev/fd0 it gives you error 115
Hmmm, this is a new bug.
> When you install the base system, it reads the first floppy you stick in
> the computer just fine, but aft
>I've tested the instlation floppies on a mac8500.
>
>Currently the rescue floppy is unreadable.
>
My experiences with Debian on my Starmax 5000 are as follows:
* I had linuxppc on two partitions; I squeezed the second's
material onto the first, leaving about 200 megs free. I
figured after I got
I've tested the instlation floppies on a mac8500.
Currently the rescue floppy is unreadable.
when you fdflush /dev/fd0 it gives you error 115
When you install the base system, it reads the first floppy you stick in
the computer just fine, but after that it thinks every other disk is the
first di
Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> We need people who do tests with the current boot-floppies. And we need
> reports about it. What does work, what not.
>
> I need reports for prep and power-mac systems.
>
> I need also help in what system goes in what categories as chrp, pmac and
> prep.
>
>
>
Hartmut Koptein wrote:
>
> Which rs/6k is chrp, which one is prep???
IIRC 40P / 43P brand names cover a wide range of workstations,
40P was a pre release PC like workstation and should be PReP
7248-100,7248-120,7248-132 are PReP and boot a PPC kernel
7043-140,7043-240 should still be PReP, b
Nemeth Tamas wrote:
>
> Can debian run on an RS/6000 43P-140? Please tell me!
hey, you aked this half an hour ago. can't you wait a little? you should
have an answer already, too.
gerhard
Nemeth Tamas wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me howt to install debian on an RS/6000 140 type machine?
> Do I have to boot from a floppy? Which one? How to boot from a floppy disk
> on such a computer?
>
i'm starting soon on ppc too and collect some basic infos for my
7248-133 (i.e rs6000 43p). i gues
> Sorry, but RS/6000 3BT is 7030-3BT 67Mhz POWER2 and being a POWER2 it is
NOT a
> PowerPC, so no hope Linux will ever run on it if you don't start a port on
> POWER/POWER2/POWER3/... IBM processors.
Just a slight errata, there is support in 2.3.x for Power3 processors. It's
an option in the .con
Flavio Curti wrote:
>
> hi
>
> has anyone an rs/6000 3BT running linux ? or any expiriences ? i will get
> susch
> a beast, and i would like to run linux on it...
>
> greetz
>
> Flavio
Sorry, but RS/6000 3BT is 7030-3BT 67Mhz POWER2 and being a POWER2 it is NOT a
PowerPC, so no hope Linux wil
Hmmm, so, I am not having much luck installing Debian. I'd just like
to get a big tarball of the base system, and config it myself. Would
anybody have a spare partition they could do that on? I just need
enough to chroot it or boot it and start going on my own, apt-getting
things, etc..
Thanks,
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Alberto Varesio wrote:
>
> Hallo,
> problem #1
>
> I'm trying to install Linux on a 43P 100.
> At the moment it is running LinuxPPC R4 with kernel 2.1.125 .
>
> Now I'm trying to install something newer, I looked at LinuxPPC R5/1999, YDL
> CS1.1 and Debian, but I can't ge
The newer firmware on the F50 has trouble with Linux. I think the firmware
is flawed and am talking with the IBM firmware engineers about it now. You
can downgrade to the older firmware or run UP.
The short version is the secondary cpus cannot get the MMU turned on. The
IR and DR bits are set,
Ok, I am stumped. I have been trying to build an SMP kernel for my
F50, and have hit a wall.
It is stopping somewhere after prom_init (I added a prom_print that
shows it is exiting this), and before printing anything else. It is
still in OF. From what I can see in the code, after prom_init, it i
How do you get to the OF prompt on machines that do not support the F8
function key to do so???
>} something, then from the OF, do: boot floppy:,\ZIMAGE
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On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 02:58:07PM -0600, Cort Dougan wrote:
> I think this machine is a prep, not a chrp so you would need to dd the
> prep image onto the floppy. What kernel were you trying? I've never tried
> the system on one of these machines.
> } > The problem is that the machine doesn't s
I think this machine is a prep, not a chrp so you would need to dd the
prep image onto the floppy. What kernel were you trying? I've never tried
the system on one of these machines.
} > The problem is that the machine doesn't seem to recognize the zImage
} > floppy as a valid boot disk. Multiple
Hi!
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, David Welton wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 07:17:46PM -0300, Douglas S. Vieira wrote:
> Try doing what I said. Don't use dd, but create a *DOS* floppy disk
> and *cp* the files there. I have no idea if this is right for your
> machine but like I said, it did work for
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 07:17:46PM -0300, Douglas S. Vieira wrote:
> David Welton writes:
> > On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 06:38:01PM -0300, Douglas S. Vieira wrote:
> >
> > > The problem is that the machine doesn't seem to recognize the zImage
> > > floppy as a valid boot disk. Multiple floppies h
David Welton writes:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 06:38:01PM -0300, Douglas S. Vieira wrote:
>
> > The problem is that the machine doesn't seem to recognize the zImage
> > floppy as a valid boot disk. Multiple floppies have been tried, so
> > it's most likely not the disks themselves.
>
> The
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 06:38:01PM -0300, Douglas S. Vieira wrote:
> The problem is that the machine doesn't seem to recognize the zImage
> floppy as a valid boot disk. Multiple floppies have been tried, so
> it's most likely not the disks themselves.
There is something tricky that isn't readily
They are funding my work on linux/ppc 64-bit, loaning equipment and
documentation. They _do_ want it. I can send you the programmers manual
if you want it, just send me email. I got it off a web site. There's
other 64-bit reference material for PPC around.
As I wrote earlier, it's already boot
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Cort Dougan wrote:
> I have the ppc64's (power3) booting most of the way using some bridge mode
> features of the chip. What exactly are you interested in? The Programmers
> Environment manual for PPC covers 64-bit pretty well. That's what I've
> been using.
I need the ful
I have the ppc64's (power3) booting most of the way using some bridge mode
features of the chip. What exactly are you interested in? The Programmers
Environment manual for PPC covers 64-bit pretty well. That's what I've
been using.
} them to me privately. What I really need at this point is POW
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Erick Kinnee wrote:
> Well, sadly the project has taken a backseat to other things. It will
> progress in several months. May I keep you as a reference when I do get
> to begin? Or do you know of a good repository for info I may need in
> this case?
Certainly! I'm gonna CC th
Herve Choplin wrote:
>
> I have a RS6000 43P model 140 and when the kernels are available ?
I got a lot of emails about the kernels not being available..
Verio/QualNet, home to sheer idiocy, had our connectivity screwed
royally yesterday. So I wasn't getting out much, and nobody was getting
in.
It's a low priority for me right now, but it's in the works.
}> Last question:
}> Is the Linux PPC 64 bit addressing compliant?
}
}No, it is not, as far as I know. The Linux kernel currently does NOT
}support the PowerPC RS64 or PowerPC RS64 II processors. (The name is
}selfexplanatory;)
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On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Jacopo Silva wrote:
> Sorry for my stupid questions :-) ...
No such thing as a stupid question; only a stupid answer. Or so I think it
goes. I just woke up. :)
> Does anyone out there know if the IBM RS/6000 Risc PPC platform is supported
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