} Ok, tired of having to reinstall Debian potato by ftp over a slow link, I } fell for the marketing claims at Linuxppc.com about the wonderful CD that } would boot and install on Motorola embedded PPC boards. } } Unfortunately, it appears that only a Mac machine can boot the CD directly. } (Why would anyone buy such a mass produced, ugly thing anyway when one can } have such a big hunking industrial looking chassis? I hate these Mac-centric } guys, they're as bad as their Wintel-loving cousins.) } } Where do I get LinuxPPC installer images for a _real_ machine like my MCP750 } board? The "PReP" images at ftp.linuxppc.org looked promising, but the } zImage hangs immediately after residual data loading...
I've had some luck with the yellowdog CD's and embedded systems. The cd includes a boot image for the SynergyMicro board and it should be easy to adapt to another system. The end result is a bit of roll-your-own is involved. If you cross-compile a kernel, boot it and tell it to use the CD-ROM as root you should be good to go. I know that the yellowdog CD works across a serial line (a truly beautiful thing, in my eyes...). ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
