Re: How to switch to debian on a powermac G4?
Thanks to Brendan and Daniel and the archives, I got the thing going.
Just in case somebody is listening, here is what I did:
- using an YDL CD, I partitioned the disk into one Mac partition and
two linux ones (plus a linux swap of course). I actually wnet on to
install YDL on the second partition, but I do not think it was necessary.
- reinstalled MacOS on the Mac partition and downloaded yaboot and the
root/rescue disks images + debian kernel (using InternetExplorer!)
- configured yaboot to boot from the downloaded kernel and with the
rescue.bin image as ramdisk.
Once OpenFirmware was set to boot using yaboot I go into the
installation process and could go on with the fun stuff.
I'll post my yaboot.conf, when I get to work where the machine is.
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:
Daniel> Requires glibc 2.0? Are you sure?
Unfortunately yes. Trying to run against glibc2.1 makes the program
segfault which I recall as being one of the symptoms of lib mismatches
across those versions (and the recommended linux versions are listed
as R4 or MkLinux).
A new version of the software (Allegro Common Lisp by Franz Inc.) is
in production but that will not come out before fall I think it was.
Daniel> If so, you should not even be trying to make this run - glibc 2.0 never
Daniel> really existed on PowerPC, it was a halfbaked port at best. Only 2.1
Daniel> and soon 2.2 are really an option. R4 and MkLinux were notoriously
Daniel> incompatible with everything else.
Hmm, I was not aware that the situation was that bad. My hopes was
that I could compile a glibc2.0 good enough for the software to run.
I will give it a try though, I think. I am not that keen on trying to
get R4 up and running. There doesn't really seem to be that much
information on its installation out there anymore.
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