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[David Pradier <pradierdavid AT yahoo.fr>]

Well well well...
I have lots of projects running currently, but i sure would like to be a 
low-working (oh sorry low !! ;-) ) ppc guru.
I don't intend to be a revolutionnary with lots of ideas, more a waiter for a 
real ppc guru, since i'm sure i lack most skills.
But well, my ibook asks me this :-)

I don't know how hard it is to maintain an iso, so i think it's a good 
opportunity to find it, but well... i would appreciate if the post was marked 
as free for whoever wants it, too :-)

See it like this : you've got the first ppc-distro guru that is a total 
newbie to both the architecture and the iso distrib generation. Aren't you 
proud of it ? You at least should smile a little :-)

Seth, Chris, as i think that you know a lot more than me about this, do i get 
your total aknowledgement that i can ask you lots of questions without being 
killed ? :-)

David/day

On Sunday 16 February 2003 23:21, Seth Woolley wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Chris Brien wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 February 2003 8:26 pm, David P wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > I'd like to know if the ppc iso is actively maintained.
> > >
> > > Chris (Brien), i think it's you who has made it ?
> > >
> > > Do you need a tester :-) ?
> > > I've just got an ibook, and i really really would prefer to run a
> > > sourcemage on it rather than a debian.
> > >
> > > Well, if you don't maintain it anymore, could you tell me ?
> > >
> > > David/day
> >
> > I stopped maintaining it when I left my last job - I no longer have
> > access to a powerpc machine (my last boss was a Mac-freak). I was only
> > able to build one (mostly) working iso, and it doesn't have any
> > partitioning tools - it really needs a spell for mac-fdisk.
> >
> > I passed the bonnet onto Seth Wooley, but I don't think he's able to do
> > it either - his ppc boxen are too important to break. I'd be happy if you
> > would want to take up the maintainence; at least then I'll have achieved
> > something.
> >
> > And tell me if it actually works or not :o)
> >
> > Chris
>
> Yes, the only problem with the iso was mac-fdisk not being there, which
> isn't that big of a deal since day's debian did the partitioning already.
>
> I did get a perfectly working system up and running, thankfully, with
> sorcery working fairly well.
>
> and mac-fdisk is an easy spell to make, if someone wants to do it.  I made
> it by hand, myself.  It ended up being quite useless since I used debian
> to make the partitions anyways.
>
> I've never custom-made an iso, but I'd be willing to try.  I just realized
> that I do have a ppc box that I could just swap harddrives out of for
> testing, since it is a desktop system (OS X on it currently).
>
> Day, if you feel like being ppc maintainer, I'd be more than happy to
> test it for you.  Debian and yellow dog are stable, but sometimes I just
> want more control. ;)
>
> I'd love to see the ppc port move forward, so I'm offering to be the
> contact for this if day doesn't want to be the contact, until the time
> comes when a real PPC guru come along and wants the "bonnet".
>
> Chris: if you have any tips for an x86 guy for building a PPC iso, let me
> know.  It looks like you used the yellow dog initrd IIRC?
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, David Pradier wrote:

> Well well well...
> I have lots of projects running currently, but i sure would like to be a
> low-working (oh sorry low !! ;-) ) ppc guru.
> I don't intend to be a revolutionnary with lots of ideas, more a waiter for 
> a
> real ppc guru, since i'm sure i lack most skills.
> But well, my ibook asks me this :-)
>
> I don't know how hard it is to maintain an iso, so i think it's a good
> opportunity to find it, but well... i would appreciate if the post was 
> marked
> as free for whoever wants it, too :-)
>
> See it like this : you've got the first ppc-distro guru that is a total
> newbie to both the architecture and the iso distrib generation. Aren't you
> proud of it ? You at least should smile a little :-)
>
> Seth, Chris, as i think that you know a lot more than me about this, do i 
> get
> your total aknowledgement that i can ask you lots of questions without being
> killed ? :-)
>

Of course.

Seth

> David/day
>

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