From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268132AbUHKRYT (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:24:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268129AbUHKRVl (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:21:41 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:65235 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268131AbUHKRUp (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:20:45 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Joshua Kwan Subject: Re: OT: Distribution for Power4 Machines Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:20:38 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20040811055622.52917.qmail@web13911.mail.yahoo.com> <15070000.1092237689@[10.10.2.4]> <1092238482.6033.4.camel@nighthawk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64-60-248-66.cust.telepacific.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:34:42 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 08:21, Martin J. Bligh wrote: >> > sorry for the most likely off-topic post. Are there any distributions >> > out there that support IBM Power4 systems (pSeries machines)? >> >> RH, SuSE and Debian all do, though maybe only the expensive enterprise >> versions of the former 2. > > You can install Debian, it's just a bit of a pain. You basically have > to replace the installer kernel with your own, and use the debian > root.bin floppy as your kernel initrd. Um. Dude. That's old. Thanks to Sven Luther our new installer fully supports power4 (as far as I know, I don't personally own one.) http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/powerpc/current/ should contain a CD image that can boot your machine. -- Joshua Kwan