Re: Installation of debian on RISC6000 IBM PPC
El lun, 07-01-2002 a las 05:40, Elizabeth Barham escribió:
> According to:
> <url:http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/ppc/43p_140notes.php>
>
> No distribution supports the 140. While we've been bringing up PowerPC
> Linux on this box we've been using SuSE 7.0 and that's what we
> recommend you try.
>
> * SuSE 7.0
I guess this url refers to 7044-140 models.
I used the CD boot images from SuSE to boot a 7044-140. And
I installed SuSE, but all my machines has Debian (or in a
way to Debian). So, for better maintenance, we need Debian
on a RS6000. 7044 is CHRP64 and 7043 is CHRP (32bits) AFAIK.
The SuSE's boot images can be found on
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/boot/chrp_boot_image_7.0.iso
I installed SuSE just for see the RS/6000 working. After
I took base's potato and uncompress in a directory (/target
in my case). However a chroot doesn't work with this files
because gblic crashes.
The following step was take a glibc from woody (2.2 without
the memcpy problem that crashes in a CHRP64). With alien
I converted into .tgz and then I uncompressed it on
/target. Now, chroot works and I have Debian inside SuSE.
After that, just edit /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/apt/sources.list
and you can make a dist-upgrade to woody (or sid if
you want). I hadn't had enough time to follow trying, but
Debian woody works in a RS/6000 7044-140.
The only problem that I had with apt-get dist-upgrade was the
configure of console (or base), AFAIR. A mean, a "problem"
if you want a clean upgrade.
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