From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: knobi@knobisoft.de,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OT: Distribution for Power4 Machines
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:34:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092238482.6033.4.camel@nighthawk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15070000.1092237689@[10.10.2.4]>
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.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/08/msg00458.html
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-11 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-11 5:56 OT: Distribution for Power4 Machines Martin Knoblauch
2004-08-11 6:06 ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-11 7:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-08-11 15:21 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-11 15:34 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2004-08-11 17:20 ` Joshua Kwan
2004-08-12 19:51 ` Jake Moilanen
2004-08-11 23:11 ` David Woodhouse
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