Installing LinuxPPC-2000 Q4 on the IBM RS/6000 43P model 7248 HOWTO

Ingvar Hagelund

ingvar@linpro.no

Revision History
Revision 1.52	2001-08-29	Revised by: ih
Added a chapter on Linux 2.4. Fixed some dead and wrong links. Fixed a lot of typos.
Revision 1.51	2001-04-06	Revised by: ih
Download site for LinuxPPC-2000 Q4 cd images
Revision 1.50	2001-02-06	Revised by: ih
Now supports LinuxPPC-2000 Q4
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 Q4 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 Q4 installer
7.2. Partition the harddisk(s)
7.3. Mount the partitions
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 tune 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. Linux-2.4

12.1. Get the 2.4 source
12.2. Compile the 2.4 kernel
12.3. Install the 2.4 kernel

13. Resources

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

14. Todo

15. Frequently Asked Questions

15.1. XF68 or XF86
15.2. There is "snow" on my X desktop
15.3. I can't get my hardware to work
15.4. Me wants another distro!
15.5. Boot floppies on other distributions
15.6. The PReP boot partition?
15.7. It won't boot at all. Could it be bad RAM?

16. Appendix: Using cfdisk to partition your harddisk

16.1. Hardisk names

16.2. Harddisk partitions

16.3. Starting cfdisk

16.4. Using cfdisk

16.4.1. The user interface
16.4.2. Deleting a partition
16.4.3. Making a new partition
16.4.4. Set the type of a partition
16.4.5. Make a partition bootable
16.4.6. Write the result to disk and quit

17. Appendix: More on partitioning

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