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

[Mike Johnson]

Turnpike Man [turnpike420 at yahoo.com] wrote:

> 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.

Step one is to give me one of your B50's. ;)
 
> 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!

Perhaps this isn't what you want to hear, but maybe try another distro?
Here's some resources:
http://www.rocklinux.org/projects/powerpc/download-rs6000/rs6000-rock-install.txt
http://www.linuxppc.org (down at the moment)
http://adequat.c2a.fr/linux/howtos/rs6000 (debian on your hardware)
http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/powerpc/install.en.txt

Mike
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