iMac DV Linux/PPC
No big feat, but Linux is now installed on the iMac that arrived yesterday (but I was out all day, so NFS installed it while in bed). Everything install for FC2 is 5881MB, from the known good tree at duke. Still no Mac images being generated for boot.iso (in spite of the script being fixed last Friday).
X took some massaging to get working. Firstboot still doesn’t run. DHCP from the Netgear that gives me hell, also doesn’t work. Sound hasn’t started working in spite of s/dmasound_pmac/snd_powermac/g in /etc/modprobe.conf (this is possibly due to the fact that iMac’s have issues playing audio CDs). The console is yellow-ish rather than a usual black – fix that with video=aty128fb at boot. Popped a DVD inside (Pretty Woman), and it got to the main menu screen where it was time to select the language; once that was done, it bombed. xine that is. Lot’s of work still needs to be done, it would seem.
yes… Debian seems to still be the distro for ppc. Some mad peeople use gentoo… but well, there you go (not saying that all gentoo users are mad… but there’s a reason you use debian on ppc – it’s what all the devs use! :)
i might wait a bit before i try fedora on ppc…. reporting enough bugs on x86 atm :)
I’d recommend giving Ubuntu a go instead. On my iMac DV everything works out of the box. Sound/Video/Wireless card. The only issues that I’m having are a bit of distortion on the low end of sound. Apart from that everything else works sweet.
I'd recommend giving Ubuntu a go instead. On my iMac DV everything works out of the box. Sound/Video/Wireless card. The only issues that I'm having are a bit of distortion on the low end of sound. Apart from that everything else works sweet.