Hello! I unsuccesfully tried to install Debian on a such machine for the last couple of hours.
The only kernel that booted on that machine is some heavily modified 2.2.14 from Suse 6.4. Which (the distro) also installs like a charm. The kernel from the current boot-floppies (current = what's in woody) would load, the last message that was printed was something about reading the OpenFirmware tree... I also tried the kernel from ftp.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-haloween/software/kernel-chrp-2.2.18-4h.ppc.rpm There is no way I could find to use any of the kernels to use root.bin from Debian so I could install it. Is boot floppy:,zimage load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=8192 prompt_ramdisk=1 debug ok? It certainly didn't work for me here. I also tried netbooting the machine, but I don't know what to feed it. http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/netboot.html has information about netbooting Apple hardware, but an IBM machine doesn't like beeing fed yaboot ;-] I have Suse installed now. Can I simply cd / ; tar -xzvf base2_2.tgz and run something to configure it? That would be the easiest way out of this mess for me...not a perfect one though. thanks for reading my moaning and brainstorming and any ideas anyone might give me. I had to deal with an AIX that was left behind by the previous admin...don't want to deal with that anymore. bye, -- Borut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------- Conserve energy -- make love more slowly.
