NDLUG (Notre Dame Linux Users Group) got a donation of about 10 IBM Power Series 400 machines. 601 processor, 48 megs of ram each, PReP-ish machines, currently running AIX. They've got some sort of experimental motherboards... anyway, we want to make 'em run linux, and possibly cluster them. currently, we can get it to boot off a disk, but as soon as it displays the "booting the kernel" message, it hangs... anyone out there done any kinda work witht his? linuxPPC page hasn't been too useful...
This inspires me to up the activities of NDLUG. A friend and I went to activities night here at the beginning of the year wearing "Ask me about linux" signs. Some girls asked us just cuz the penguin was so cute...:) But after collecting a few email addresses of people actually interested, we got kicked out. But now we've gotten some university support. Unfortunately, our Office of Info Technologies loves M$. time to put an end to that trend.. and this story gives me some ideas...
No copy of windoze for me either...if i had one, i'd turn it in, but i built my machine myself, and i never contaminated my hard drive. slackware was the first thing to inhabit its pristine sectors.
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if this thing is any good, perhaps gone are the days of mentor graphics off a remote sparc...
then again...
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NDLUG (Notre Dame Linux Users Group) got a donation of about 10 IBM Power Series 400 machines. 601 processor, 48 megs of ram each, PReP-ish machines, currently running AIX. They've got some sort of experimental motherboards... anyway, we want to make 'em run linux, and possibly cluster them. currently, we can get it to boot off a disk, but as soon as it displays the "booting the kernel" message, it hangs... anyone out there done any kinda work witht his? linuxPPC page hasn't been too useful...
Good job indeed.
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This inspires me to up the activities of NDLUG. A friend and I went to activities night here at the beginning of the year wearing "Ask me about linux" signs. Some girls asked us just cuz the penguin was so cute...
But after collecting a few email addresses of people actually interested, we got kicked out. But now we've gotten some university support. Unfortunately, our Office of Info Technologies loves M$. time to put an end to that trend.. and this story gives me some ideas...
No copy of windoze for me either...if i had one, i'd turn it in, but i built my machine myself, and i never contaminated my hard drive. slackware was the first thing to inhabit its pristine sectors.