PPC Supported HW

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 11:54 -0500, James E. LaBarre wrote:
> >On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 13:12 -0500, James E. LaBarre wrote:
> >> I grabbed the first disk for the PPC build of FC4-T2, and was reading
> >> through the README files to see what the supported hardware is before I
> >> burn that disk and grab the rest.
> >> 
> >> Problem is, the disk has the HW Requirements fole for intel/X86 systems,
> >> rather than the PPC file.
> >
> >What hardware are you looking at installing on?
> 
> 
> RS/6000 (at the moment, I have a 43P-140 to try it on, but that machine
> type has long-standing problems for booting).

Um, that box is PReP and AFAIK isn't well supported by mainline kernels
in the later 2.6 series.  Last I knew you had to use special kernels
with a number of extra patches for that box (mine's in a closet in
Minnesota so I can't test with it).


This site has all the dirt:

http://www.solinno.co.uk/7043-140/

Dan