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Operating Systems AIX Power8 S812L:HMC issue and ... Post 302962097 by MichaelFelt on Tuesday 8th of December 2015 09:15:48 AM

12-08-2015

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So, I got it backwards - need 7.1 to do anything with POWER8.

Are you doing a "bare metal" install? That may be why you are having a problem and I have not (up through Power6 and Power7).

For bare metal then, I would try/experiment with Ubuntu.

These are not the most current - from my notes from Feb/March 2014 when I was installing debian, ubuntu, opensles and fedora on a Power6.

Code:

Fedora 
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/21/ppc64/

http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/fedora-secondary/development/

http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora-secondary/releases/20/Fedora/ppc64/iso/
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora-secondary/releases/20/Fedora/ppc64/iso/Fedora-20-ppc64-netinst.iso
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora-secondary/releases/20/Fedora/ppc64/iso/Fedora-20-ppc64-DVD.iso

SLES/OpenSuse

http://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/distribution/

http://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/distribution/13.1/iso/
wget http://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/distribution/13.1/iso/openSUSE-13.1-ppc-NET-ppc-Build0073-Media.iso
wget http://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/distribution/13.1/iso/openSUSE-13.1-ppc64-NET-ppc64-Build0073-Media.iso

UBUNTU
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ

Fedora needs vnc, OpenSLES needs (for net boot) to install from http - I would skip for now, debian and ubuntu install easily with a console connection - and also support vnc if I recall. (VNC install might be easier, but you still need a bit of contact with the console).

My "favorite" free Linux is debian - this is how I setup my VIOS to support an install.

Code:

$ mkrep -sp rootvg -size 10G
$ lsmap -vadapter vhost2
$ mkvdev -fbo -vadapter vhost2 -dev vtopt64
# # wgets on a different server that I can read via NFS when using mkvopt
# wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-7.6.0-powerpc-netinst.iso
# wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/powerpc/iso-dvd/debian-7.6.0-powerpc-DVD-1.iso
# wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/powerpc/iso-dvd/debian-update-7.6.0-powerpc-DVD-1.iso
$ mkvopt -name deb_760_netinst -file /data/prj/linux/debian/debian-7.6.0-powerpc-netinst.iso -ro
$ mkvopt -name deb_760_DVD1    -file /data/prj/linux/debian/debian-7.6.0-powerpc-DVD-1.iso -ro
$ mkvopt -name deb_760_update  -file /data/prj/linux/debian/debian-update-7.6.0-powerpc-DVD-1.iso -ro

Last edited by MichaelFelt; 12-08-2015 at 10:45 AM.. Reason: added debian and mkvopt commands

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FRAGISO(8)						      System Manager's Manual							FRAGISO(8)

NAME

       fragiso - split rpm packages from an iso and reassemble the iso later on

SYNOPSIS

       fragiso make iso fiso
       fragiso list fiso
       fragiso fill [-m] fiso iso

DESCRIPTION

       fragiso	can  be  used  to convert an iso file into a fragment file, which is a list describing all of the rpms on the iso and a data chunk
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       copy the rpms at the right offset into a new file and then use fragiso fill later on to provide all data not contained in the rpms. The	-m
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SEE ALSO

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AUTHOR

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