Re: Potato on RS/6000 F50 four-way
Be warned, the F50 4-way is very touchy under Linux. I never finished my
SMP work with it before IBM pulled the plug. There are known races so
don't rely on the thing to stay up for you :)
} I have successfully installed Debian 2.2 Potato on an IBM F50 with 4
} cpus. Unfortunatly, I need to recompile the kernel to support SMP, and
} among other things, MSDOS filesystem. I have had a rough time trying to
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} get a kernel to compile (using source for 2.2.17) and I was hoping maybe
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} someone had some tips for me as to which kernels are best suited for
} this machine, etc.
}
} I've also been trying to get a decent window manager installed for X. I
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} would prefer KDE, but when I try to "apt-get install kdebase", I am told
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} that kdebase has a broken dependency for "rman" (reverse man pages
} builder I believe) and that the package is not installable b/c rman has
} no installation candidate.
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} Finally, console-apt won't install because libapt-pkg2.6 is
} unavailable. I *really* like capt, so that's just sort of on the wish
} list.
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} If anyone can aid me to resolve any of these problems, I'd be quite very
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} obliged.
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} Thanks as always,
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