From: Dominik Kubla <kubla@sciobyte.de>
To: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: Sven.Riedel@tu-clausthal.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux and RS/6000 250
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:40:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011125144038.C5506@duron.intern.kubla.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011125024652.B26191@moog.heim1.tu-clausthal.de> <Pine.NEB.4.33.0111251427280.1488-100000@www2.scram.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0111251427280.1488-100000@www2.scram.de>
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:28:47PM +0100, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
> Hi Sven,
>
> > I've uh "inherited" an elderly RS/6000 250 and wanted to install linux
> > on it. Googleing for this machine and linux turns up information that it
> > is not possible. Yet, this information is a tad older (one to two years
> > old), so I wondered if anything changed in that regard -
> > apparently PPC in combination with the MCA bus were not supported.
>
> I own a couple of them and currently run AIX 4.3.3 on all of them.
> However, i heared, that the support from IBM is to be discontinued next
> year and i would ^love^to run Linux on them if at all possible :-)
Add a 350 from me. But the problem is not just the PPC/MCA combination,
but also the CPU. It's Power, not PowerPC!
Dominik Kubla
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-25 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-25 1:46 Linux and RS/6000 250 Sven.Riedel
2001-11-25 9:55 ` David Weinehall
2001-11-25 10:29 ` Alexandre Dulaunoy
2001-11-25 13:28 ` Jochen Friedrich
2001-11-25 13:40 ` Dominik Kubla [this message]
2001-11-25 16:47 ` Sven.Riedel
2001-11-25 17:02 ` Charles Marslett
2001-11-25 17:10 ` Dominik Kubla
2001-11-25 21:33 ` Joel Becker
2001-11-25 22:14 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-11-26 0:40 ` Joel Becker
2001-11-26 0:50 ` David Weinehall
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