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MintPPC project

z970mp said:
PPC OS X, Linux, and OpenBSD are all on the verge of great achievements now.

Exciting times. :)


You could probably still do that (or get something close) on Tonvid instead of bloated YouTube. Give it a shot.
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tried it out and it's so much faster on leopard WebKit But it still streams YouTube fine in the browser without the ads on the side and all the other mess.
 
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Jeroen Diederen said:
Smtube, if you refer to that, is in Debian-ports, is therefore easily installable. I can even have it installed for you during the installation of MintPPC.
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is Smtube a separate application from Tonvid, because the default Tonvid plays YouTube from YouTube in the browser, but without the website bloat which slows down older macs.
 
Ricardo Villalbai s behind smtube / smplayer:
https://www.smtube.org/
www.smplayer.info

SMPlayer - Free media player for your PC

SMPlayer is a free media player than can play virtually all audio and video formats. It can even play and download Youtube videos. Other interesting features: find and download subtitles, thumbnail generator, resume playback.
www.smplayer.info www.smplayer.info
I don´t know if he is related to Tonvid.
 
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Out of curiosity, will this be based on Tina ( 19.2 ) ?

I've already got 2 MacPro's running 19.2 and a 2010 MacBook Pro. Adding the iMac PPC will be fantastic!
 
I think there is a very easy solution.....I overlooked the fact that there is a 32bits netinstall cd and a 64-bits one for Debian....
 
Hughmac said:
Would it possible to dual boot with the existing Tiger system on my Pismo?

Cheers :)

Hugh
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Yes, as it's just a modified Debian Sid.

The Wiki has a section that details how to dual-boot Linux with OS X, which will go for generally any distribution.
 
z970mp said:
Yes, as it's just a modified Debian Sid.

The Wiki has a section that details how to dual-boot Linux with OS X, which will go for generally any distribution.
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Thank you, I'll have a look when I have a larger SSD in place.
Jeroen Diederen said:
I would like to know how it runs on a Pismo. I have one myself but did not try it.
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If I get it going I will certainly report. However my Pismo now has a 550 MHz G4 so I could be regarded as cheating ;)

Cheers :)

Hugh
 
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Using Grease Monkey, vlc browser plug-in and viewtube script is the best way to watch youtube on ppc linux on low end machines. The script even allows for downloading videos to watch in an external player if need be. Just follow these instructions (with links). On my G4 i set it to use SD low quality mp4 for 360p.

Edit: No need for the non-altivec VLC or non-altivec plugin in step 1, thats just for amiga machines or g3's. Just use debian/ubuntu standard packages.

Cheers
 
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I'm struggling to install yaboot. I followed the steps as per the blog, but it's failing.

Please see attached screenshot.

If I continue as is and finish the installation, I can't boot into the system. I just get the icon with no OS flashing.

This is on an iMac G5 iSight
 

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You might want to install yaboot manually. Boot from the same installation medium and instead of using the default "install" enter TAB. Then type "rescue". If you in the rescue menu, you have to enter a shell and do the following:
Code: 
chroot /target
apt install yaboot hfsutils
(don't know if it is necessary, think they are already installed but don't have a MintPPC Mac here at work)
Then:
Code: 
yabootconfig -b /dev/sda2
ybin -v
Then return to the menu:
Code: 
exit
Then reboot
 
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Thanks for the reply @Jeroen Diederen

It doesn't seem to work. Please see attached screenshot. Maybe I've done something wrong with the partitioning in the beginning, not sure.

Don't stress it at work, whenever you get a chance.
 

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Maybe you are already in the chrooted environment
What if you do the yabootconfig and ybin there ?
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I think the problem resides in PATH. Can you try this please:

Code: 
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
chroot /target
yabootconfig -b /dev/sda2
ybin -v
exit
 
Ok, progress. I had to select sda3 as the root environment and then had to execute the shell in the installer environment.

There I could chroot, but apt can't seem to find yaboot.
 

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