Bug 528495

Summary:	No documentation exists on the use of ppc/os/images/netboot/ppc{32,64}.img ... should it?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora Documentation	Reporter:	James Laska <jlaska>
Component:	install-guide	Assignee:	David Nalley <david>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Ruediger Landmann <rlandman+disabled>
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Description James Laska 2009-10-12 14:08:54 UTC

Description of problem:

Looking in the installation-guide, there is no documentation on what the ppc64.img and ppc32.img are for and how to use them.  While ppc will be moving to a secondary architecture for Fedora 13, I'm curious if it makes sense to document usage of these files?

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 * http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f12/en-US/html-single/#sn-which-files

Comment 1 David Nalley 2009-10-19 01:30:55 UTC

Hi James - 

Essentially during the runup to the F11IG we decided to drop PPC from the IG for a couple of reasons. 

1. The authors had no PPC equipment at hand
2. Significant portions of the content were similar to x86 guide.
3. Dearth of people working on the IG 
Also, rudi was already doing most of the heavy lifting. That situation became even worse with F12. So while we'd love to do PPC stuff without some commitment from people who know or are willing to learn, I don't think we are likely to see this information. 

That said, if someone from QA has this knowledge and can work with us to put it in, we aren't opposed to working on it.

Comment 2 aixadmin 2009-12-09 23:28:31 UTC

Team,
I have 3 different models of IBM power 4 machines I can test on and would be happy to work with someone to debug network, cdrom and DVD booting problems and documentation. FC10 is the last ppc image that I was able to install from and I suspect that FC11 and FC12 are broken.

IBM Machine types for testing:
7044-170
7029-6E3
9114-275

Comment 3 Ruediger Landmann 2010-01-15 06:46:35 UTC

I have to agree that POWER is out of scope for the Fedora IG now, but would be more than happy to include a link to a page on the Fedora wiki about installing or using Fedora on POWER-based systems.

I'm closing this as a bug against the Installation Guide, but am happy to help develop the wiki page if either James or aixadmin can point me to the relevant resources.

Thanks especially to aixadmin for your generous offer of help -- hopefully, I'll be able to take you up on that!

Cheers

Ruediger