Getting started on POWER9

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 12/6/18 7:54 AM, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:36:28 -0500
> Ali Mashtizadeh <mashtizadeh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I was skimming through the mailing list archives and saw a few
>> messages saying I could boot an OpenPower off a standard install
>> image.  It seems that this isn't true for the USB key as petiteboot
>> doesn't know what to do with it.  Is my only choice to install from
>> the cd/dvd images?
>>
>> Best,
>> Ali
> My understanding is the USB image has *never* worked, and the cd/dvd
> images will work.  You can simply write the DVD image to a USB stick
> and boot from it.  I did that for my initial install.
>
> - Justin
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>

We should probably just stop providing the "memstick" image, actually.
They are only needed (as an alternative to putting the DVD image on a
USB stick) for a tiny subset of very old Apple computers -- I think just
one or two models -- and don't even work on a much wider swath of more
recent hardware.
-Nathan