Re: compiling packages on powerpc

[Hartmut Koptein <koptein@et-inf.fho-emden.de>]

> i am working with the powerpc tarball i got from master, and then i
> did a dselect update, etc. things seem to be working okay, i changed
> /etc/inittab to use getty instead of mingetty, which was in the
> tarball, but didn't seem to belong to any package. anyway, the tarball
> seems to work fine, if we only had an installation disk...

Have you reset your computer? :-)  The mingetty entry has his reason
to be in the /etc/inittab. With the current getty you can't login!
So change it before you reset!

MfG,

  Hartmut


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