PPC Supported HW

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Thu Apr 14 16:11:47 UTC 2005


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).

Currently Fedora Core ppc is targetted at 32/64 bit powermac and should
work on 64 bit pseries.

32 bit pSeries won't work atm as the yaboot is incompatible with initrd
loading on 32bit pSeries. 

I've a box on my desk and will have a look at somepoint, but it's not a
high priority.

Paul




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