Fw: installing Lenny on IBM RS/6000

> to christian:
>
> i have a rs/6000 7248-133
> which is a prep machine.
> started with loading it with woody (2.4.x)
> by following the following how to:
>
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/IBM7248-HOWTO.html
> (it is still there)
>
> i used the floppy installer with a cdrom of woody (3.0)
> ---- probably the sarge (3.1) cdrom would work also.
>
> installed fine.
>
>
> and was able to upgrade to sarge with no problem by doing dist-upgrade.
> had to rebuild the kernel later to support newer features in sarge- not a
> big problem -
>
>
> could not get etch (4.0) to install/upgrade.
> wound up having to build the kernel manually.
> suspect lenny has/is the same problem.
>
> and runs as fast as my pentium box with etch installed...
>
> i have tried the mini.iso under the powerpc/prep directories.
> did/does NOT work.
>
> the powerpc builds are generally for the MAC systems and not the IBM's.
>
> configuration of disks:
> (i have a scsi disk to install to)
>
> sda1 prep partition 8 MB
> sda2 swap partition 500 MB (more that twice installed memory)
> sda3 ext3 partition reset of disk for root (/)
>
> the zImage.prep has a built in boot loader.
> you copy (dd) it to the sda1 partition.
> (dd if=/boot/zImage of=/dev/sda1)
> and load the rest of the software onto sda3
> you set the kernel command line to load root from /dev/sda3
> (console=tty1 root=/dev/sda3)
> now the device names on yours might be different
> (hda, sda, etc)
>
> if you get woody/sarge up
> can help in getting etch/lenny to work on IBM
>
> dale
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian Garbs" <mitch.DeleteThis@cgarbs.de>
> To: <debian-powerpc.DeleteThis@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:13 PM
> Subject: Re: installing Lenny on IBM RS/6000
>
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