Initially setting up power pc

[Jens Rehsack]

Peter Grehan wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> 
>>Hm, I could start a research if setting up harddisk is definitively
>>impossible. What I'm currently interested in is, how do I labeling
>>the disk to get started?
> 
> 
>  Sorry, I don't know what format disks should be on IBM rs/6k machines.
> 
> 
>>>>Linux/PPC runs fine, since 2000.
>>>
>>>OK, that should at least give you a start wrt to how to bootstrap the system.
>>
>>wrt?
>>Don't understood.
> 
> 
>  Linux already has the boot process working on this machine, so if you can
> work out how it occurs (e.g. what OpenFirmware commands are needed, what
> format the loader is in etc), it should help in understanding what is needed
> to get FreeBSD to boot.

The loader is the same as for PowerMacs. At least, it's documented
that way in the manual. So creating an cd-image for PowerMac should
work with the 43p machines (and above).

Jens