Installing LinuxPPC 2000 on an MCP750

Installing LinuxPPC 2000 on an MCP750

[Lonnie L VanZandt]

Ok, tired of having to reinstall Debian potato by ftp over a slow link, I
fell for the marketing claims at Linuxppc.com about the wonderful CD that
would boot and install on Motorola embedded PPC boards.

Unfortunately, it appears that only a Mac machine can boot the CD directly.
(Why would anyone buy such a mass produced, ugly thing anyway when one can
have such a big hunking industrial looking chassis? I hate these Mac-centric
guys, they're as bad as their Wintel-loving cousins.)

Where do I get LinuxPPC installer images for a _real_ machine like my MCP750
board? The "PReP" images at ftp.linuxppc.org looked promising, but the
zImage hangs immediately after residual data loading...

Lonnie.


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Re: Installing LinuxPPC 2000 on an MCP750

[Cort Dougan]

} Ok, tired of having to reinstall Debian potato by ftp over a slow link, I
} fell for the marketing claims at Linuxppc.com about the wonderful CD that
} would boot and install on Motorola embedded PPC boards.
}
} Unfortunately, it appears that only a Mac machine can boot the CD directly.
} (Why would anyone buy such a mass produced, ugly thing anyway when one can
} have such a big hunking industrial looking chassis? I hate these Mac-centric
} guys, they're as bad as their Wintel-loving cousins.)
}
} Where do I get LinuxPPC installer images for a _real_ machine like my MCP750
} board? The "PReP" images at ftp.linuxppc.org looked promising, but the
} zImage hangs immediately after residual data loading...

I've had some luck with the yellowdog CD's and embedded systems.  The cd
includes a boot image for the SynergyMicro board and it should be easy to
adapt to another system.

The end result is a bit of roll-your-own is involved.  If you cross-compile
a kernel, boot it and tell it to use the CD-ROM as root you should be good
to go.  I know that the yellowdog CD works across a serial line (a truly
beautiful thing, in my eyes...).


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