mapage wrote:I am trying to install YDL on an older IBM RS6000 F50. I found this FAQ
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/s ... rs6k.shtmlbut it is woefully out of date. (The link in step 1 is broken and the rest of the FAQ is based on that.) Also, I think champion_server is ancient.
I'm grateful for any help you can give.
I would be as well. I've got 3 of these machines and would like to get at lease one of them up and running.
I've been Googling for days and have come up with lots of mostly useless info - very little for Linux on F50.
The link mentioned above seems to have been fixed but I need a more detailed recipe. It links to no less than 8 zImage files but fails to mention which each is for.
Getting a ramdisk image (step 3) is problematic as it's too large for a floppy in the current release. I searched the FTP site until I found one small enough (from a earlier release of YDL) to put on a floppy.
I managed to get one of the zImage diskettes to actually do something (memory count - processor recognition) but everything I've tried so far hangs before it ever asks for the ramdisk image.
So, is there an F50 guru somewhere out there? Is there a Google search I missed? What is the minimum firmware required to run YDL?
I've been thrashing at this for a while so any assistance or suggestions would be
greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much,
MetroGnome