Prep support

[Terry Polzin]

Greetings:

I have an old 7428-100 1st generation 43P.  Which is believe is PREP and not 
CHRP.  After downloading the first CD iso image and loop mounting it it 
appears that there is only a boot image for CHRP machines, is PREP supported, 
planned or otherwise?

Thanks,

Terry

[Paul Nasrat]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:08:13AM -0500, Terry Polzin wrote:
>  Greetings:
>  
>  I have an old 7428-100 1st generation 43P.  Which is believe is PREP and not 
>  CHRP.  After downloading the first CD iso image and loop mounting it it 
>  appears that there is only a boot image for CHRP machines, is PREP supported, 
>  planned or otherwise? 
IIRC Mac's are PReP and work.  I don't have any access to old 6k machines,
I'm
going to read through the HOWTO and various other docs, take apart the install images,
etc:

http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/resources/howtos/HOWTO/IBM7248-HOWTO/index.html 

and see what would need doing, but it's not my primary concern for the moment.
It also won't happen before next week. Fixing the bits for a smooth Mac
installation comes first.

Paul

[Terry Polzin]

On Friday 10 December 2004 08:12, Paul Nasrat wrote:
>  On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:08:13AM -0500, Terry Polzin wrote:
>  > Greetings:
>  >
>  > I have an old 7428-100 1st generation 43P.  Which is believe is PREP and
>  > not CHRP.  After downloading the first CD iso image and loop mounting it
>  > it appears that there is only a boot image for CHRP machines, is PREP
>  > supported, planned or otherwise?
>
>  IIRC Mac's are PReP and work.  I don't have any access to old 6k machines,
>  I'm going to read through the HOWTO and various other docs, take apart the
>  install images, etc:
>
>  http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/resources/howtos/HOWTO/IBM7248-HOWTO/index.html
>
>  and see what would need doing, but it's not my primary concern for the
>  moment. It also won't happen before next week. Fixing the bits for a smooth
>  Mac installation comes first. 
OK keep me posted please , I've had deb on this
box in the past, so I know 
linux will run on it.  it's just a matter of having the bootstrap for it's 
firmware I guess.  I'm in no rush, the 7428 is my play toy for the moment.