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On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 19:58, John Warren wrote: |
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> hello |
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> When searching through the forums I was directed to this list. At my job I |
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> have access to numerous rs6000 machines both MCA, PREP, and CHRP models. I |
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> am a avid x86 user of gentoo and converted numerous people I work with. I |
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> would like to install Gentoo on some of our lab machines but have had |
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> problems so far. The only real documentation I have found was from the |
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> 7043-140 website by leigh brown and have not had much success with it. Is |
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> there currently a rs6000 build in the making that needs worked on or tested? |
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> Any assistance would be appreciated. |
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Hello John, |
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Some good news, and some bad news, first the good news. Prep machines |
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can be bootstrapped, its not the best solution, but none of the ppc devs |
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have an active RS/6000 to include boot cd support for. From what I hear |
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so far, the YDL lists have the best directions so far, having been |
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around longer than most other ppc dists they were the first to run on |
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the RS6Ks. Any modern ppc/Linux kernel configured for a prep/chrp box |
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should boot most RS6Ks with 604s. Power series machines require a lot |
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more work, since only SuSE has a working kernel for those. But I hear |
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its possible to rip SuSE's kernel and use a Debian or Gentoo user land |
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instead of SuSE's. |
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The bad news, MCA machines will never work with ppc/Linux. It's |
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unsupported in the kernel and there is no movement to support them. IBM |
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shot themselves in the foot in the early days by trying to have a |
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proprietary system which locked customers into IBM solutions. History |
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has proven it worked. It's AIX for those boxes. |
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trance |
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gentoo/ppc kernel team |
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