RS/6000 7020 F50 System with sarge
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 altough i set the bootlist to cd only. It tries booting but
makes restarts all the time.
I think, that i can choose at installation time a working default kernel.
Assumed that i can boot a bootmedia (CD, HD, NFS, TFTP and so on). What
would you recommend?
I think that i must afterwards compile a new kernel to support 3 CPUs.
I tried today to boot from the HD (harddisk) according to the "Debian
GNU/Linux-Installationmanual at 4.5.2 and 5.1.2.3.
That means:
Downloading the files vmlinux, initrd.gz, yaboot and yaboot.conf and
copied to the root directory (/) (now still AIX works, which i would like to
replace with Debian sarge)
My root directory is under /dev/hd4
I booted the system new and with pressing the F1 key i got to the System
Management Services and opened a bootprompt "0 >". Then i tried the
following:
boot hd:4,yaboot
This boots AIX
boot hd:0,yaboot
This boots AIX also
I have the above mentioned ISO in the CD drive an tried with
boot cd:,\install\yaboot
This boots AIX also
I thing i am overlooking something or some information is missing, but
which?
At URL http://www.de.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/prep
There is the following mentioned:
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Floppy Based Install
Write the boot1440.bin, root1440.bin, resc1440.bin, drv14-*.bin, and images
to floppy disks. dd can be used on a Linux/Unix system or rawrite can be
used on a DOS/Windows system.
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Where can i download this files and would you recommend this method?
What do you think? Which boot method do you recommend?
If you need some more informations, i can provide it to you.
Thanks and hoping hearing form you.
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