Installing LinuxPPC-2000 on the IBM RS/6000 43P model 7248 HOWTO

Ingvar Hagelund

ingvar@linpro.no

Revision History
Revision 1.40	2000-12-14	Revised by: ih
Translated to SGML. This is the initial release for LDP

This document describes the installation of LinuxPPC-2000 on the IBM RS/6000 43P model 7248 series.

Table of Contents

1. Introducion

1.1. Copyright Information and Legal stuff
1.2. Disclaimer and scope
1.3. New versions
1.4. Credits
1.5. Feedback
1.6. Translations

2. Overview

2.1. The IBM RS6000 43P 7248-133
2.2. What's the matter, why not use the original installation procedure?
2.3. An overview on what to do

3. Setting up the hardware with SMS

3.1. Where is the BIOS?
3.2. How to use the SMS
3.3. What settings to use
3.4. More info about the hardware

4. Get the installation files

4.1. Buying a CD
4.2. Download CD images over FTP
4.3. Network installation

5. Make boot floppies

5.1. What floppies to make
5.2. How to make the bootfloppies

6. Boot the machine and start the installation program

6.1. Boot the machine
6.2. Make some hacks

7. Install the system

7.1. The LinuxPPC-2000 installer
7.2. Partition the harddisk(s)
7.3. Continue installation
7.4. Select and install packages
7.5. Make a root password and exit

8. Boot the machine

9. Set up networking

9.1. Support for the integrated ethernet adapter
9.2. Configuration files
9.3. Set IP address and netmask
9.4. Set hostname and gateway
9.5. Nameserver specification
9.6. The hosts file
9.7. Restart the network

10. Update the kernel and set up the X Window system

10.1. Why update the kernel
10.2. What files to download
10.3. Unpacking and patching the source
10.4. Configuring the kernel
10.5. Compiling and installing the kernel
10.6. Set up X

11. Set up sound

11.1. Support for the integrated sound adapter
11.2. Configure and compile the kernel
11.3. Configuring the modules
11.4. Reboot and pray

12. Resources

12.1. Other resources on Linux/PPC and 43P boxes
12.2. Installing other flavours of Linux on the 7248

13. Todo

14. Frequently Asked Questions

14.1. XF68 or XF86
14.2. There is "snow" on my X desktop
14.3. I can't get my hardware to work
14.4. Me wants another distro!
14.5. Boot floppies on other distributions
14.6. The PReP boot partition?
14.7. It won't boot at all. Could it be bad RAM?

15. Appendix: Using cfdisk to partition your harddisk

15.1. Hardisk names
15.2. Harddisk partitions
15.3. Starting cfdisk
15.4. Using cfdisk

16. Appendix: More on partitioning

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