Re: Fedora Core 4
by Josh Boyer
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 21:36 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rudi Chiarito (nutello(a)sweetness.com) said:
> > > - PPC support
> > > For your brand spanking new MiniMac, or the p655 under your
> > > desk.
> >
> > I assume the mention of the p655 means support for ppc AND ppc64? Just
> > asking for a clarification. It's not clear right now which kind of
> > PPC64 hardware can be used for a fresh install. I know because I was
> > checking Raw Hide this very morning.
>
> I believe that's the plan. Note that not *all* 32 or 64-bit PPCs
> may be supported; I wouldn't expect 32-bit RS6Ks to work, for example.
Hmm, that's not because there is lack of interest in those machines.
There are at least a couple of us that are 100% willing to be testers.
I think all we're really missing is a boot.iso that groks a 32-bit CHRP
machine (for the 43p-150 RS6Ks anyway).
Paul Nasrat gave me one a while ago that booted the kernel, but didn't
understand the initrd for some reason. Others have a kernel, but no
knowledge on how to spin a boot.iso.
Is there a huge potential user base for these machines? I doubt it.
But it would be cool for those of us still running old copies of SuSE or
Debian. Can I assume it's mostly just a lack of time that would prevent
these machines from being supported, or is there some other technical
reason that I'm missing?
josh
19 years, 3 months
can't boot with boot.iso
by adrien roch
Hello everyone,
Here is my issue,
I have a powerbook G4 and i want to get fedora on it.
But i can't boot from the boot.iso CD.
Holding the "c" key seems to not working...
I'm not experimented with Macintosh and i'm sure
there's something stupid i forgot to do.
Thanks
Adrien Roch
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19 years, 4 months
Re: Small mistake
by Colin Charles
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 11:59 -0500, bvds(a)nauticom.net wrote:
> I got the same error as before:
> Package system-config-users needs libuser >= 0.52.5, this is not
> available.
>
> Or were the instruction for trying FC2->FC3?
Updates between test releases aren't supported. Period. If it works,
good for you, in your case it seems to break...
Actually, look, libuser is here:
ls libuser*
libuser-0.52.5-1.ppc64.rpm libuser-devel-0.52.5-1.ppc.rpm
libuser-0.52.5-1.ppc.rpm
Thats in the yum tree mind you :)
Also, if you don't have libuser only, look at what else won't work:
rpm -q --whatrequires libuser
system-config-rootpassword-1.1.6-1.noarch
firstboot-1.3.33-1.noarch
libuser-devel-0.52.5-1.ppc
system-config-users-1.2.28-0.fc3.1.noarch
system-config-samba-1.2.25-0.fc3.1.noarch
Somehow, the dependency isn't satisfied, so maybe a manual fix needs to
be done. Or the RPM db is somehow "borked"
So, maybe a clean install will help...
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19 years, 4 months
Re: Small mistake
by Colin Charles
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:32 -0500, bvds(a)nauticom.net wrote:
> and of course this package is not available... How do I fix this?
> I suppose one answer is to upgrade to FC3, but I only want to
> do this if someone can assure me that the upgrade is easy to do.
> Can one do the upgrade using yum?
You probably can, but upgrades were never supported thru test releases
You really need to do:
yum update yum
first. Then get kernel, udev bits. And continue. Notice that even for
x86, we didn't post a FC2->FC3 yum update guide this time around... Too
much possibly flakyness
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19 years, 4 months
TEST: Sleep patch #7
by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
(As usual, I'm cross posting several lists, please don't reply to all of them,
and CC me as I'm not subscribed to all of them neither)
Ok, here's the 7th version of the sleep patch for ATI based albooks &
iBook G4. Other machine users, please test too as it may cause
regressions (or improvements) as well.
The cache flush problem happens to not be completely fixed yet :( There is
something going on that I don't completely explain yet, might be related to
an errata of some CPU revisions. This version of the patch adds a load/flush
loop before the L2 HW flush on the 745x that appear to make the thing stable
on the machines I've tested on. It's a good enough workaround for now, I'm
working with freescale to find out what's really going on though.
http://gate.crashing.org/~benh/albook-ibookg4-sleep-7.diff
Ben.
19 years, 4 months
Fedora PPC on a Powerbook Lombard
by Michael Logdon-Porter
I tried an installation of FC3 to replace YDL on my Powerbook this
afternoon. In trying to do an NFS install, via linux askmethod, when
it comes time to initialize the network device, it is unable to find
the driver. When selecting the BMAC driver, it seems to find eth0
with that driver (on VT 3 it displays "<6>eth0: BMAC+ at
00:50:e4:c5:2d:29"), but still returns me to the "No driver found"
dialog. I have also tried sungem, but it fails as well. I seem to
recall someone else having the same problem a while back, but I can't
find a solution via Google. Any ideas?
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Michael A. Porter
Computer Science
University of Kentucky
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19 years, 4 months