We had the opportunity to test a p630 for a few weeks at our workplace. After the AIX tests were finished, we decided to install Debian GNU/Linux on one partition of the machine. Since we (or Google, actually) could not find any unified document describing the process of installing Debian on POWER4 machines, we hope that our account of the installation procedure will be of general interest. Below are links to German and English versions of the write-up we did. We benefitted greatly from the Debian-Network-Installation-on-POWER3 HOWTO by Rolf Brudeseth which was posted to the debian-powerpc list in July 2002. http://people.debian.org/~fmw/p630-LPAR-Debian-de.txt German http://people.debian.org/~fmw/p630-LPAR-Debian-en.txt English Manuel Lässer Ralf Strauss Florian M. Weps
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