Ubuntu Install for RS6000-B50 2U Rack Mount Server.

Hakan Koseoglu hakan.koseoglu at gmail.com
Sat Apr 25 16:39:25 UTC 2009


On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Nyle Davis <davisoft at mail.com> wrote:
> Trying install of 8.04 on RS6000-B50 2U Rack Mount server.  Opened forum
> thread at:
That is quite an ancient hardware with 32 bit 604 model power CPUs.
Good luck with it.
You'd be more successful with Debian's PowerPC port or FreeBSD.

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch02s01.html.en#id2777405
http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/

I looked at a couple of Ubuntu mirrors and couldn't spot the PowerPC
version and this is why: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPC

To put it bluntly, PowerPC is not supported by Canonical.

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