[Novalug] PowerPC linux?

Andrew Beals andrew.beals at gmail.com
Fri Mar 2 11:02:32 EST 2012


Mini.iso, dug out of Ubuntu's wiki:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPC

Here's the page that mentions the 11.10 problem:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCKnownIssues



On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Leslie Farkas <lesfark at yahoo.com> wrote:

> What do you use for bootstrap?
>
> -Les
>
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> *From:* Andrew Beals <andrew.beals at gmail.com>
> *To:* Novalug at calypso.tux.org
> *Sent:* Friday, March 2, 2012 10:37 AM
> *Subject:* [Novalug] PowerPC linux?
>
> So, did the fellow who asked the question a couple of weeks ago end up
> executing yet?  If so, what did you end up installing?
>
> I've spent last night and a good three hours this morning mostly waiting
> for the single Ubuntu 11.04 mirror (in the UK) to d/l files to a G4 mac ...
> which refuses to fire up X due to some sort of missing library.  (I'll go
> looking for it tonight)  Per the Ubuntu wiki, the PPC version of 11.10 is
> hosed from the get-go, and one is supposed to upgrade from 11.04 (which
> fails in an interesting way).
>
> If this gives me any more fits, it's Yellow Dog next.
>
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