Linux PPC 1999 (aka. R5) on PReP
Installation Quick Guide

(Japanese page is here.)

Sorry for broken English, because I am Japanese(^^;;).

• Installation Quick Guide
  Before read this page, you should better go to Mr. Aoshima's PReP station, espetially his making Linux/PPC R4 Installation page.
  

  1. Get the Linux PPC 1999 CD-ROM or binary rpm files from ftp archive.
  2. Get the floppy install image file from ftp://ftp.microux.com/pub/linux. You should make boot floppy disk from this image file by the following ways.
     
     • For Linux ( or Unix ) users : From the comannd line, type this command
       

       dd if=./zImage.initrd of=/dev/fd0
       

     • For Machintosh users : Use "suntar" program. Select "Overwrite sectors" from "Special" menu of suntar program, then insert floppy disk to your Mac.
       
     • For MS-Windows users : Sorry, I'm not MS-Windows user, so I dpon't know how to do this(^^;;).
  3. Insert the floppy disk to your PReP machine and reboot. The Red Hat Linux installation program has been launched, and you can use the program to install the Linux PPC 1999.
     If auto-boot process was failed, then insert floppy and type this command from the PPCBUG prompt.

     pboot 1
     

  4. After you go through the redhat install, you should better get the Linux kernel source altarnated by Motorola from Motorola Computer Group Linux page ( I recommended, because Mot's alternated kernel seems like very much statable than the original one).
  5. To make the new kernel, You would type follows as Super-user:

     su
     rm -rf /usr/src/linux
     cd /usr/src
     tar xvfz linux_mot_2.2.10.tar.gz
     ln -s /usr/src/linux_mot /usr/src/linux
     cd /usr/src/linux
     make mrproper
     make menuconfig
     make dep
     make zImage
     make modules
     make modules_install
     cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/
     cp /usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/boot/zmlinux /boot/vmlinuz
     dd if=/usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/boot/zImage of=/dev/fd0
     

     The kernel configuration of my Linux Box is like this. If you made PReP bootable pertition on the hard disk of your PReP machine ( for example, /dev/sda2 ) , then Linux can boot from the hard disk. If you want to do this, type the following command.
     

     dd if=/usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/boot/zImage of=/dev/sda2
     

  6. Adding "setsync" command to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. For example;
     

     mount -t proc /proc /proc
     #------adding from here-----
     # set synchronus negotiation for SCSI devices
     echo "setsync 0 25" > /proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0 # QUANTUM FIREBALL1080S
     echo "setsync 5 255" > /proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0 # TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5301TA
     #----------to here----------
     if grep -i nopnp /proc/cmdline >/dev/null ; then
     

     in this case, SCSI ID=0 is Quiantam's hard disk and ID=5 is Toshiba's CD-ROM drive. See /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.ncr53c8xx for more information.
  7. If you want to use X Window system, install the Xbh server as follows,

     rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/software/Xwindows/XFree86-Xbh-3.3.3.1-49a.ppc.rpm
     rm  /etc/X11/X
     ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/Xbh /etc/X11/X
     

     then, you would type at the console prompt:

     startx -- -mmap