Re: Install problems on 43p-150 RS/6000

2024-03-26 Thread barravince
on 43p-150 RS/6000 Hello Adrian,On 3/26/2024 5:10 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:> I can't go into the details right now due to lack of time, but you should> first check whether your machine is still supported by the Linux kernel.> > I know that IBM engineers dropped supp

Re: Install problems on 43p-150 RS/6000

2024-03-26 Thread Bill deWindt
Hello Adrian, On 3/26/2024 5:10 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I can't go into the details right now due to lack of time, but you should first check whether your machine is still supported by the Linux kernel. I know that IBM engineers dropped support for many of their own PowerPC

Re: Install problems on 43p-150 RS/6000

2024-03-26 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Adrian, Bill, On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 10:01 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Your 43-P150 system is listed here: > > > https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/install > > Apparently, there were custom installation floppy disks for this machine. > > Since the link above 404s, you have

Re: Install problems on 43p-150 RS/6000

2024-03-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Bill, On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 21:08 -0400, Bill deWindt wrote: > Please bear with me as this is my first post the powerpc group, but I am > pretty sure I am in the right place for this. :) You are. > After recently purchasing a NOS Sparc Ultra 5 and having great success > getting Sid running

Install problems on 43p-150 RS/6000

2024-03-25 Thread Bill deWindt
Greetings! Please bear with me as this is my first post the powerpc group, but I am pretty sure I am in the right place for this. :) After recently purchasing a NOS Sparc Ultra 5 and having great success getting Sid running on it after much work and reading on linux.debian.ports.sparc I