Re: Web page (~joey)
Peter Abrahamsen wrote:
> Greets again,
>
> I found the following web page, which explains a method of installing
> debian-ppc:
>
> http://www.debian.org/~joey/powerpc/install.html
>
> Anyway, for the chap that was also seeking to find out how to install, it
> looks like you can go to the url above, and skip to step 6 (after making a new
> partition for the debian, mke2fs'ing it, and mounting it, naturally).
>
> It looks like it will be easy enough, and I see no reason why the linuxPPC
> kernel (even the prebuilt one) should not work for us. Is this correct?
Generally the prebuilt should work, but you know Murphy, don't you? In
my case it didn't detect the ethercard which made the machine pretty useless.
> I'm very anxious to get this working - I have to get a harddrive back from a
> friend to install off of. Once I'm going, what area needs most work? I.e.,
> would it be of must use for me to learn how to make .deb packages, and start
> compiling stuff, or are there other areas which need work? I am not a C
> programmer, but there should be other things I can do to help.
There are a bunch of packages (~300 irrc) that are not compilable on
our powerpc machines. Hartmut maintainer a list. These need work. For
the regular stuff we have some auto-compiler running.
The second - but very important - issue covers the boot-floppies for
PowerPC.
Regards,
Joey
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