[nflug] Debian on RS/6000

Robert Wolfe robertwolfe at localnet.com
Fri Nov 30 09:34:02 EST 2007


On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:28:42 -0500
eric <eric at bootz.us> wrote:

> oh Rob your going to have lots of fun  ;)
> 
> http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/
> 
> this should get you started
>  I'll do the best I can to help you, but you'd probably want to go to a 
> forum based for yaboot, powerpc, and openfirmware.  take note while you 
> are searching the net for openfirmware directions you will be lead down 
> some crazy paths... you should first learn what your openfirmware is 
> configured to currently, what version you have, how to recover from a 
> misconfiguration, do you actually need to configure anything in 
> openfirmware... is it all set for install of a linux distro... check to 
> see if a distro has your RS/6000 listed as a tested machine... so on and 
> so forth.  Make it easy for your self before you tinker around.

Heh, maybe I should just stick with AIX 5L :P  (which I don't too much care for).

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     Robert Wolfe (robertwolfe at localnet.com) | Systems Administrator
         LocalNet Corp | Amherst, NY | http://www.localnet.com
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