Re: Error trying to update powerpc64 Jessie machine.
On 06/28/2018 10:35 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> It is perfectly possible to install the last supported 64-bit release and then dist-upgrade to sid and everything seems to run just fine. I am having no troubles ( nothing fascinating other than some datatype weirdness ) on a PowerMac G5 :
There was never an officially supported 64-bit PowerPC release for big-endian,
just little-endian (ppc64el).
> nix$ uname -a
> Linux nix 4.17.2-genunix #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 23:42:51 GMT 2018 ppc64 GNU/Linux
> nix$
This is just the kernel. Your userland is still 32-bit, I assume:
dpkg --print-architecture
> However I really should yank the disks out and try the latest installer
> with grub2. Just for testing.
Have fun!
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