Re: Fedora 8 Linux on iSeries? -- MIDRANGE-L

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I thought I would give it a shot on my 270. I downloaded the ppc dvd image to my system and got to reading the doc:
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IBM "Legacy" iSeries (POWER4)

So-called "Legacy" iSeries models, which do not use OpenFirmware, require use of the boot image located in the images/iSeries directory of the installation tree.
<snip>

Unfortunately I do not seem to have the images/iSeries directory.

So does that mean it is a no go? Any ideas?

Bryan

David Gibbs said the following on 11/10/2007 4:33 PM:

Mark S. Waterbury wrote:

My understanding is that, once iSeries (and pSeries) support was integrated into the Linux kernel, essentially any "distro" of Linux that can run on PowerPC should be capable of running in an (iSeries or pSeries) LPAR.

Yeah, I kind of knew that ... but I thought you needed something from the commercial distro providers to start the install. My gut says you can't just stick the Fedora 8 PPC DVD in a LPAR's drive and boot it up.

'course, I could be wrong ... I've never actually tried it (don't have a LPAR system to play with).

david

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