On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Tirs Abril wrote:
> Hi everybody! After almost six months working in a project abroad, I am back > home and I'm continuing what I left, namely the installation of Mandrake > Linux 8.0 PPC on an IBM RS/6000 43P-150. > > My question is very simple: Where do I begin? I have the two CDs, and none of > them boot. I am afraid maybe they are intended for a MacIntosh BIOS and I > have been looking for a bootable floppy image or something similar, but I > couldn't find it. Can somebody put me on track? Is there anybody out there > who has installed Mandrake PPC on an RS/6000 and wants to share experiences? > We did have someone on the list who was working their way through this, and I made some diskdrake changes to accomodate those machines, but they dropped out so the project never finished, as I don't have hardware here. They had rolled their own kernel/bootdisk to get the install kicked off. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
