Claude BONFANTI wrote:
Hello, I have bought few weeks ago an IBM RS/6000 43P workstation. I wanted to change the operating system for Debian. So I looked onthe website to find where to download the corresponding ISO files to my workstation model. I must admit that it is much more easier for Intel ... I am completely lost. Could you help me? Tell me exactly what I am supposed to download, and where can I find it? Thanks a lot.
Hmm, 43p what? Model 7248? I've got a few of those running (and one lying in the closet without disk and cdrom because I'm testing SCSI on the AmigaOne. Me bad. Really bad). The last time I checked the boot floppy didn't work (the infamous scsi bug). This does work, though:
http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/43p/images/carolina_bootimage_2.2.18_with_fbThen grab the root floppy for PReP from Debian and force a floppy boot from the carolina bootimage.
More information can be found here: (how to boot from floppy etc.) http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/fag/43p/2000-Q4/The kernel source you get from apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.x compiles just fine on these machines, and the root floppy for PReP installs via the net for you. Getting a CD is ok as well, but I don't know how to make a CD bootable for this arch. Start off with those two floppies, and we'll see if things work.