Re: [gentoo-user] PPC64 on IBM Power8

2015-11-24 Thread luciano mannucci
On 2015-11-24 04:14, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: Hey dude, what you'll gonna do with this machine. Just curiosity. Well, I'm a service provider, I need a good OS for infrastructure virtual machines, I think gentoo is not necessarily a bad choice... ;-) Cheers, Luciano. -- /"\

Re: [gentoo-user] PPC64 on IBM Power8

2015-11-24 Thread luciano mannucci
On 2015-11-24 00:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:41:00 +0100, luciano mannucci wrote: Ok, I'll fight with the low intensity virtual video and I hope I'll be back with a success story soon... :-) Start the SSH server in the live install environment, then you can SSH

Re: [gentoo-user] PPC64 on IBM Power8

2015-11-23 Thread luciano mannucci
On 2015-11-23 15:51, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: The install medium has almost zero effect on what ends up in the installed system. The only purpose it serves is to partition and format your block devices - after that you chroot into the stage3 which will become your install environment. Good! Th

[gentoo-user] PPC64 on IBM Power8

2015-11-23 Thread luciano mannucci
Hello, I'm trying to install the last Gentoo on a virtual machine on an IBM Power8. It refuses to boot the minimal CD saying that it is not bootable. The IBM literature says that Power8 will never boot a 32 bit system, so I tryed the last ppc64 mini install for ppc64 that I found googling aro