RS/6000 7025 F50 System with debian sarge

From: Bruhin (bruhin_at_datacomm.ch)
Date: 06/25/05

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    Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:43:36 +0200

    Hello

    I have a RS/6000 7025 F50 system with 1 GB RAM and 10 x 9.1 GB HD with
    3 604e CPUs.

    Does someone know a working system with sarge or woody with my hardware
    type?

    I would like to use the following ISO: debian-31r0a-powerpc-netinst.iso

    It doesn't boot altough i set the bootlist to cd only. It tries booting but
    makes restarts all the time.

    I think, that i can choose at installation time a working default kernel.
    Assumed that i can boot a bootmedia (CD, HD, NFS, TFTP and so on). What
    would you recommend?

    I think that i must afterwards compile a new kernel to support 3 CPUs.

    I tried today to boot from the HD (harddisk) according to the "Debian
    GNU/Linux-Installationmanual at 4.5.2 and 5.1.2.3.
     
    That means:
     
    Downloading the files vmlinux, initrd.gz, yaboot and yaboot.conf and
    copied to the root directory (/) (now still AIX works, which i would like to
    replace with Debian sarge)
     
    My root directory is under /dev/hd4
     
    I booted the system new and with pressing the F1 key i got to the System
    Management Services and opened a bootprompt "0 >". Then i tried the
    following:
     
    boot hd:4,yaboot
     
    This boots AIX
     
    boot hd:0,yaboot
     
    This boots AIX also
     
    I have the above mentioned ISO in the CD drive an tried with

    boot cd:,\install\yaboot

    This boots AIX also

    I thing i am overlooking something or some information is missing, but
    which?

    At URL http://www.de.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/prep
    There is the following mentioned:

    ----------------snip----------------------------------
    Floppy Based Install

    Write the boot1440.bin, root1440.bin, resc1440.bin, drv14-*.bin, and images
    to floppy disks. dd can be used on a Linux/Unix system or rawrite can be
    used on a DOS/Windows system.
    ----------------snip----------------------------------

    Where can i download this files and would you recommend this method?

    What do you think? Which boot method do you recommend?

    If you need some more informations, i can provide it to you.

    Thanks and hoping hearing form you.

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