[Debian-ppc64-devel] How to start installation on an IBM i5 (power5).

[Cajus Pollmeier]

Am Freitag, 20. Mai 2005 10:15 schrieb Roberto Suarez Soto:
> On May/20, Sven Luther wrote:
> > the pseries should work, have you tried the power4 32bit kernels ?
>
> 	No, I haven't, because I can't even make the box recognize the CD-ROM
> as a bootable device. When I try to boot from it, it just goes "No
> operating system installed". That's the problem: it's not that the kernel
> doesn't work, but that the CD doesn't boot.
>
> 	Maybe I'm writing the CD in some wrong way. Does it need to be burnt
> in any special way? I just used cdrecord plainly, but maybe I need to use
> some special switch :-?
>
> > > 	I'll have this box for some time, so if I can do any test to help,
> > > just ask :-)
> >
> > Have you tried Cajus's stuff?
>
> 	I have no idea of what's that "Cajus' stuff" O:-) Where could I find
> it?

Look here:

http://debian.gonicus.de/debian/dists/sarge/main/disks-powerpc/current/pseries/

This is no CD-Installer, its network based...

Cheers,
Cajus