[TriLUG] Installing Red Hat 7.1 on RS/6000, type 7046-B50

[Turnpike Man]

Hi all.  I just found out about trilug and figured this would be the perfect
opportunity for me to learn more about the world of linux.  Based on my
question below, it is a shame I could not make it to the install session last
Saturday!  Just a bit of background on me... I have 3(4?) machines running Red
Hat Linux at home, 2 are 7.2 and one is 7.3, and a 4th with a failed
installation of 8.0 (hardware related me thinks).  I have basic knowledge of
iptables, sendmail, apache 1.3.x (learning 2.x), bind, dhcpd, smb, and a
variety of bits and pieces of things; I also know HTML (very well) and PHP4
(some).  My office job consists of running a W2K ADS setup... ya, ya...
*shrugs*

My challenge is as follows.  We have 2 IBM RS/6000 type 7046-B50 machines, each
with 375mhz cpu, 2 18GB drives, and 256MB RAM.  At one time, both ran AIX
4.3.3, which I do not like very much.  I had decided it is time to leverage
Linux on this hardware.  I managed to find (about a year ago) SuSE 7.1 boxed
product which worked on this "CHRP" architecture.  It installs fine, much
easier than AIX, and functions better with less configuration.

However, I don't like the SuSE distro.  I have recently acquired the CDs for
Red Hat Linux 7.1 for the Pseries (RS/6000 is classified as such).  I am having
trouble getting the RH 7.1 installation started.  At boot, after the keyboard
icon appears, I hit F1 to enter the System Management Services.  I choose the
options to get to the point of chosing diskette, CD, or network.  With disc 1
of 3 in the CD drive, I choose CD!  Well, nothing... that's where I'm stuck.  I
tried making a boot floppy, and failed at that as well, but I don't think it
was a ppc boot.img either.

Any ideas on how to get this installation started??  The documentation CD
didn't really help me much, so I'm hoping someone out there has the xp!

thanks,
Turnpike420

__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more
http://taxes.yahoo.com/