I have downloaded the ppc iso today. So far I can report that the disk fails to boot the following devices New World G3 Pismo Powerbook New World G3 Imac Old World 9600 ppc
The disk appear as a valid HFS standard disk on a MacOS desktop however I can't provide any more info about the boot failures :( david On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 09:23, Robert Jordens wrote: > Hello! > > John Goerzen and I have made Debian From Scratch (DFS) available for > PowerPC machines. You would do us a big favour if you could test this > first image and give suggestions. I only have my Powerbook G4 Alu > available as victim. > > Primary Location: <http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/> > Temparary for PowerPC: <http://people.debian.org/~jordens/dfs/> > > md5sum: > a8ed36bd6a06c411917df87404384de7 dfs-0.6.4.rj3_powerpc.iso (357M) > > It follows a general (still i386/amd64/alpha centric) description of > DFS. > > Robert. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Basic Features of DFS > > Welcome to Debian From Scratch (DFS). DFS is really two > systems: 1) a bootable CD for repairing Linux systems or > installing Debian; and 2) the program that generates the CDs > that are used for #1. Most of this manual focuses on #1. A > wide variety of DFS CDs can be made using the DFS build tools. > This manual will refer to CDs made using the default > configuration. > _________________________________________________________ > > 1.1. DFS Features > > You can expect the following from your DFS CD: > > * Bootable CD featuring the GNU Grub bootloader. Can be used > to boot hard disk partitions even if no hard disk > bootloader is present. > * Kernel and userland support for all major filesystems, > including ext2, ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, FAT, VFAT, NTFS, > ISO9660, CramFS, tmpfs, and more. Userland support for > Reiser4. > * Kernel and userland support for different disk layout > schemes including standard partitioning, Logical Volume > Manager 2 (LVM2), software RAID, etc. > * Full recovery tools runnable directly from CD, including: > + Filesystem utilities for all mazjor filesystems, > including undeletion tools for ext2 > + Partition editors (fdisk, cfdisk, parted) > + Text editors (nano, joe, vim, emacs) > + C, Perl, Python, and OCaml development environments. > Enough to configure and compile a new kernel and > build basic .debs. Kernel 2.6.6 sources included on > CD. > + Full networking support, including PPP and various > Ethernet cards and DHCP > + Network tools including FTP clients, Web client, ssh, > telnet, NFS, smbclient, tcpdump, netcat, etc. > + Backup restoration tools such as rdiff-backup, > dump/restore, tar, cpio, amanda client, afbackup > client, etc. > + CD and DVD burning tools > + Basic printing tools (cat for local printers, rlpr > for remote ones, and netcat for Jetdirect, plus > unix2dos for text files and Ghostscript for emergency > conversions) > + Mail reader (mutt) > * Base systems for multiple versions of Debian installable > directly from CD, including: woody (i386), sarge (i386), > sid (i386), and sid (amd64). Alpha CD can install woody, > sarge, or sid for Alpha. > * amd64 support: Enough to install or fix an AMD64 system. > Includes 64-bit kernel with 32-bit emulation (to run the > 32-bit userland on the CD). Also includes 64-bit package > for bootstrapping a new AMD64 support. In short, you can > boot a 64-bit kernel and be treated as a first-class > citizen in almost all respects. > * i386 or x86_64 (amd64) kernels bootable directly from > initial boot menu. > * DFS generation scripts support custom kernels, packages, > mirrors, compressed ISO images, and a high degree of > flexibility.