Subject: Re: How to install YDL 2.0 on an RS/6000
From: Hollis (hollis-lists@austin.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jul 17 2001 - 21:07:34 MDT
Leigh wrote:
> 1) Format MS-DOS floppy and copy the correct zImage onto it.
> 2) Uncompress appropriate (text or X11) ramdisk image and copy
> onto 12 (sorry :-( ) blank floppies. Possibly like this:
> $ gunzip -c ramdisk-blah-blah.gz >/tmp/ramdisk
> $ dd if=/tmp/ramdisk of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2880
> $ dd if=/tmp/ramdisk of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2880 skip=2880
> $ dd if=/tmp/ramdisk of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2880 skip=5760
> .. and so on ..
> 3) Boot to open firmware prompt (F8 on my 43P-140).
> 4) Boot kernel from MS-DOS floppy. My command line is:
> 0> boot floppy:,\zImage root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
> ramdisk_size=128000 noinitrd
> (above command must be all on one line, substitute zImage with
> your kernel filename).
> 5) Feed it the 12 ramdisk images as it prompts for them.
> 6) The installer will start.
You're right, that does sound awful. :)
Actually, the Install CD should be bootable on CHRP machines. I believe the
140 can be either CHRP or PReP, but you should be able to find details about
that on the IBM PPC Linux page (email me privately if you need more). If you
can boot it as a CHRP, please let us know how it goes... I don't think
anyone's attempted it yet.
If you do need a custom kernel (I believe 140 support is experimental?), try
using the .config in the YDL kernel-source rpm's. I can supply you with these
privately if you have a hard time getting at them.
(Unfortunately the CD's are not bootable on PReP or ANS machines, which
pretty much forces them into the floppy route. That's a particularly bad
solution; I wouldn't recommend trying it.)
-Hollis
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