Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Ben Westover
On 5/11/23 7:26 AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: I suspect it is hopeless, as far as I remember PReP support disappeared when the ppc and ppc64 kernel trees were merged into the single powerpc architecture. Arch Linux's unofficial ppc port lists instructions for installing on PReP machines [1], so

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 02:05:01PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > That might be possible, but you need a PReP boot partition on your > disk (type 0x41), to which you directly copy the kernel if memory > serves. Later releases put yaboot or grub2 on that partition so you actually got a proper

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:34:48PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:03:21PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 08:21 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well I have seen lots of people say woody worked on that machine. > Not sure how late support for that hardware stuck around. After all > 192MB ram and 133MHz 604 is not a lot of resources. I am not sure how > late Debian would have

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:01:45PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > I am the proud owner of this ancient machine on which I am attempting to > install Debian. This machine is equipped with a Gotek floppy emulator > and a ZuluSCSI emulator (for HDD and CD-ROM) for convenience reasons. > For

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 11/05/2023 12:34, Alexander Huemer wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:03:21PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: Hi! On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Alexander! On Thu, 2023-05-11 at

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:03:21PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi Alexander! > > > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 12:01 +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > > > CD-ROM based installation is supported for most

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Alexander Huemer
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:03:21PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > Hi Alexander! > > > > > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 12:01 +0200,

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Alexander Huemer
Hi! On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Alexander! > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 12:01 +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > > CD-ROM based installation is supported for most architectures. > > > > Again, I don't know if CD-ROM based installation is expected

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Alexander! On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 12:01 +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > CD-ROM based installation is supported for most architectures. > > Again, I don't know if CD-ROM based installation is expected work on > PReP. [5] doesn't contain any ISO images. I've tried [6] though that > doesn't

Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

2023-05-11 Thread Alexander Huemer
Hi I am the proud owner of this ancient machine on which I am attempting to install Debian. This machine is equipped with a Gotek floppy emulator and a ZuluSCSI emulator (for HDD and CD-ROM) for convenience reasons. For reference, this is a 32bit PowerPC machine following the PReP[1]