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MintPPC project
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I apologize for the double post, but is there any way I can dual boot MintPPC and Leopard and if so, how would I go about doing that?
Thanks!
Thanks!
@RogerWilco6502 Jeroen wrote up a walkthrough detailing how to do this on the official MintPPC website, which can be found here. (Dual boot MintPPC / OSX Leopard)
Alternatively, there is also the guide available on The PowerPC Linux Wiki I made a while back, which can be found through my signature, or the Sticky Threads list at the top of the forum. The guide is listed under Dual Boot Between Linux / OS X, contained within the Guides category.
Alternatively, there is also the guide available on The PowerPC Linux Wiki I made a while back, which can be found through my signature, or the Sticky Threads list at the top of the forum. The guide is listed under Dual Boot Between Linux / OS X, contained within the Guides category.
I’m installing it in my Mini and it’s having issues with mirrors. What mirror should I use? I tried doing what the install instructions stated and it didn’t work. Beforehand it said that network setup completed successfully.
Ok, thanks! I found a way to manually install it after installing Debian on your site. Will that still work?
Too bad, just when I tried to install it, on my MacMini too.
That fails on the mirror choice (also faced that trying to use the Debian Remix version few days ago, on my iMac G5).
As a first feedback, having 2 distributions on the disk and an empty space big enough to receive MintPPC, I chose to use this space. The installer ignored the existing boot and swap partitions and wanted to create new ones.
So I cancelled and chose to create an ext4 root partition ... before meeting the mirror problem.
Debian is pretty broken at the moment. I am waiting for the developer to fix the Grub issue and to fix the keyring problem. The guy who is able to do that, is too busy. You guys will have to wait.
Hum ... the same situation than 6 months ago ... Thanks for the fast feedback though.
Maybe you have an answer about that: do you know why the migration to Grub was started? I mean our platforms have used yaboot for so many years. What justified this change? Was it blocker for something?
Maybe you have an answer about that: do you know why the migration to Grub was started? I mean our platforms have used yaboot for so many years. What justified this change? Was it blocker for something?
Debian is basically AMD / Intel and it was decided long time ago to migrate to grub. PowerPC is not part of the release cycle anymore so whatever is decided, it will also end up in PPC. I don't know all the details but simply said, yaboot cannot be used anymore in Debian nowadays, for many reasons. Someone needs to fix the Grub issue. If that is done, we can sail.
I couldn't get package mirrors to work correctly when using Debian. It installed fine, but it failed to see any of the mirrors I added post-install.
If you guys are just spinning your wheels waiting for Debian to be fixed, why not give Void a quick go?
Who knows... It just might surprise you.
Jeroen, I would not necessarily block out the idea to re-base Mint on the Void repos IF it proves stable enough, and IF the current situation with Debian keeps on for much longer.
Right now, and if anything at all, Void should be tried on different hardware so that we will at least have more info about how well it works in its current state, which will allow us to build a good reference in a shorter amount of time.
Who knows... It just might surprise you.
Jeroen, I would not necessarily block out the idea to re-base Mint on the Void repos IF it proves stable enough, and IF the current situation with Debian keeps on for much longer.
Right now, and if anything at all, Void should be tried on different hardware so that we will at least have more info about how well it works in its current state, which will allow us to build a good reference in a shorter amount of time.
Void PPC32 has worked pretty well for me as far hardware support goes. Any iBook/PowerBook with a G4 and Radeon graphics should work just fine. I do believe that non free firmware for the WLAN card needs to be installed, but I can't remember which package that would be in Void.
I've tested on 2 G5's. Installer KP's and locks both machines up. Also tried on 2 1.5ghz G4 minis. Same outcome. It does work well on 15" 1.67 PB however. Our old macs are not the main target, so I wouldn't expect much in the way of support unless we submit patches/fixes. I really want it to work, but it doesn't on 4 out of 5 machines sadly.
Cheers
Cheers
@wicknix Thanks for this sobering info. If void works across the PPC world, I will give it a try.
Debian is well known for me and I thought it would be helpful to contribute to this major distribution.
I wanted to be surprised by Void. My Mini refuses to boot with USB whatever the distribution. I burnt a CD and booted. Got a black screen with mouse pointer, then an error dialog before seeing LXDE. There I had almost nothing to play with and ... I thought I found there an installer ....
Even reading the online doc of voidppc, I don't know how to install it ...
I agree with you. I've installed plenty of OS's on my iMac PPC and I could never get Void running.
@z970mp I am not yet convinced to base MintPPC on Void just yet. I am pretty sure that this year the Grub issue will be fixed. For the meantime, you can, if you can't manually install MintPPC, use @wicknix Lubuntu remix. The latter has support until 2021. By then we will have a decent installer of MintPPC, I am sure.
Debian is well known for me and I thought it would be helpful to contribute to this major distribution.
I wanted to be surprised by Void. My Mini refuses to boot with USB whatever the distribution. I burnt a CD and booted. Got a black screen with mouse pointer, then an error dialog before seeing LXDE. There I had almost nothing to play with and ... I thought I found there an installer ....
Even reading the online doc of voidppc, I don't know how to install it ...
New installation instructions – MintPPC
www.u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl
