From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31709 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Oct 2003 21:07:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-ppc-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-ppc-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 27829 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2003 21:07:58 -0000 From: j-warren@comcast.net To: gentoo-ppc-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:07:57 +0000 Message-Id: <102920032107.13962.7c76@comcast.net> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Oct 14 2003) X-Authenticated-Sender: ai13YXJyZW5AY29tY2FzdC5uZXQ= Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] rs6000 X-Archives-Salt: 978da561-91b2-40b3-ab3b-589517a8b93f X-Archives-Hash: e455c09b8b323e0beb0ee182db6b28e3 Right now all of the machines are booting using AIX as the OS. I know I will have to have a special kernel for the ppc and prep as well but I do not beleive that I can compile it on AIX? I almost had debian installed on the system at one point but was having trouble with the bootloader( yaboot i think) not to mention i really dont like debian i scrapped it and have been trying to find a way to install gentoo ever since. > How do these machines boot? > How do you you select a /root partition while booting > (or whatever the equivalent thing is on one of those boxes?) > What OS is on there now? > > I've got gentoo on an amigaone ppc box, but I needed a pre-existing > debian install to set it up. > > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 22:58, John Warren wrote: > > hello > > > > When searching through the forums I was directed to this list. At my job I > > have access to numerous rs6000 machines both MCA, PREP, and CHRP models. I > > am a avid x86 user of gentoo and converted numerous people I work with. I > > would like to install Gentoo on some of our lab machines but have had > > problems so far. The only real documentation I have found was from the > > 7043-140 website by leigh brown and have not had much success with it. Is > > there currently a rs6000 build in the making that needs worked on or tested? > > Any assistance would be appreciated. > > > > > > > > -- > > gentoo-ppc-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > -- > gentoo-ppc-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-ppc-dev@gentoo.org mailing list