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

[Brent Fox]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 17:34, Turnpike Man wrote:
> 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!

Are you trying to do a serial install or do you have a monitor hooked up
to the machine?


Cheers, 
   Brent