09-17-2008
Hi
I dont know if i have understand your problem
I have an old RS/6000 7025-F50 4*332 mhz with Aix and DEBIAN PPC 4.0 R2 boot is type (Prep) no problem
(just no drivers for SSA loop disks D40 with Linux).
You having small cd file (iso file ) download to make test.
If you not having DVD in your RS/6000 download is 21 cd to install really or 3 DVD
(also you can install same me i have make with SAMBA and mount DVD to other intel computer)
Debian PPC have no problem it is very stable.
(operational Oracle Apex DB2 Apache2 Postgresql Samba PPPOE Squid 3 .....)
Rh is also well but to resovle same problem boot specific model can be difficult
and take long time. I have also 7025-F40 but unable to boot Prep no resolved.
See debian.org site you having some informations and FAQ about PPC Prep boot to resolve
Good luck
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
bootcd2disk
BOOTCD2DISK(1) bootcd utils BOOTCD2DISK(1)
NAME
bootcd2disk - copy a system running from bootcd to a disk
SYNOPSIS
bootcd2disk [-i] [-s] [-c <config directory>] [-url <url>]
DESCRIPTION
With bootcd2disk a CD build with bootcdwrite can be copied to one or more Disk Partitions from the running cd-based system. Therefore
bootcd could be used to make rescue disks.
It is also possible to let bootcd2disk automatically find a disk, make partitions on it, copy the cd to the disk and make the disk
bootable. bootcd2disk will be available as soon as your system is running from cd.
OPTIONS
-i With this option the complete bootcd2disk runs in interactive mode and you can run each function manually. This option is useful for
debugging.
-v The option "-v" (verbose) adds messages on running.
-s This option can be used to disable interactive questions and to try to ignore errors.
-c <config directory>
The configuration directory which normally is "/etc/bootcd" can be changed with this.
-url <url>
If bootcd2disk is slow on your system (because of a slow CD/DVD drive or the HP ILO virtual CD interface), you can use an image server
to get the image from. bootcd2disk use the SWAP partition of your upcoming system as temporary space and copy the image from the con-
figured image server to this partition and use it as image. The image server url is configured with this option.
example install from imagesserver:
bootcd2disk -url http://192.168.1.1/cdimage.iso
Another way the increase the performance is the use of the mounted CD/DVD itself for the copy. The option "-url" is the same, the url
starts with "file:///"
example install from CD/DVD drive sdc0:
bootcd2disk -url file:///dev/sdc0
The swap partition of the upcoming system must have enough space to get the whole image!
Currently no other options can be specified on command line. All other configuration has to be done in the config files.
FILES
/etc/bootcd/bootcd2disk.conf
Configuration for bootcd2disk.
SEE ALSO
Documentation in bootcd2disk.conf
bootcd2disk.conf(5), bootcd(1), bootcdflopcp(1), bootcdwrite(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Bernd Schumacher <bernd.schumacher@hp.com> and Carsten Dinkelmann <Carsten.Dinkelmann@foobar-cpa.de> for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
bootcd2disk 2007-04-04 BOOTCD2DISK(1)