Hi Stuart! On 2/14/19 1:28 PM, IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR wrote: > I have some P710 or P720 (they are 4U rack mount) OpenServers from a number > of years ago that I believe are Power5. Is there a current (or older) version > of Debian that works for them? > > If there is no current Debian version for them, then presuming I install an > older version is there a script that will allow me to do an upgrade of > packages via a source build of current sources or are there issues to do this?
You should be able to install Debian's ppc64 port on these servers as POWER5 is already 64-bit capable. Installing GRUB should also just work as these machines don't require the extra hassle to use an HFS partition for booting. Use this image: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-01-27/debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
