RE: Fedora 8 Linux on iSeries?

I'm not sure that the 270 is Linux capable. IIRC you need to have an
S-Star processor, which would be some 820's, 810's and most or all 5xx
boxes.

If you have that, you CAN boot the linux kernel straight from a virtual
optical drive.

There's a redbook somewhere that expains the process in detail.

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist
Fiserv Midwest


-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Dietz [mailto:bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:34 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Fedora 8 Linux on iSeries?

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:
<snip>
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