Re: Cooker PPC is back online
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Jerry Goldstein wrote: On 10/15/01 12:57 PM, Stew Benedict spoketh: There will be no 8.1PPC, although if you get into cooker early on, you'll effectively have an 8.1 system. Cooker will be a march towards 8.2PPC, which hopefully will be released close to the x86 release. Once I get the installer online, you'll be able to create your own install images from the cooker tree. Stew, For us relative newbies, would it be at all possible for you to put together very detailed instructions (perhaps on your web page) as to how to create the install images for this ongoing 8.1 cooker? Do we need to download those 100's of rpms in the cooker development directory each time revisions are made? You mention if you get into cooker early on... What does this mean in terms of keeping up with the revisions? These are the kinds of things we'd need to know to participate in the cooker development. In the last few months I've become very interested in Linux on the Mac and chose Mandrake to focus on. I've learned a lot, but have a very long way to go. I'd love to experience the progression from 8.0 to 8.2 with the various cooker stages, but without these detailed instructions, I'm sure I'll be completely lost. Thanks very much for your work in bringing Linux to the Mac and I hope you'll have time to do the above. Jerry Absolutely Jerry, Not tonight, but I'll follow up tomorrow with a little HowTo. You won't need to update all the RPM's each time, just use a mirroring tool such as wget to get the latest changes. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
Re: Cooker PPC is back online
On 10/15/01 7:17 PM, Stew Benedict spoketh: Stew, For us relative newbies, would it be at all possible for you to put together very detailed instructions (perhaps on your web page) as to how to create the install images for this ongoing 8.1 cooker? Do we need to download those 100's of rpms in the cooker development directory each time revisions are made? You mention if you get into cooker early on... What does this mean in terms of keeping up with the revisions? These are the kinds of things we'd need to know to participate in the cooker development. In the last few months I've become very interested in Linux on the Mac and chose Mandrake to focus on. I've learned a lot, but have a very long way to go. I'd love to experience the progression from 8.0 to 8.2 with the various cooker stages, but without these detailed instructions, I'm sure I'll be completely lost. Thanks very much for your work in bringing Linux to the Mac and I hope you'll have time to do the above. Jerry Absolutely Jerry, Not tonight, but I'll follow up tomorrow with a little HowTo. You won't need to update all the RPM's each time, just use a mirroring tool such as wget to get the latest changes. Stew Benedict Thanks very much Stew. I'm sure all of us newcomers will appreciate it. No rush obviously. Whenever you get the time. Please be sure to explain wget :-) Jerry
Cooker PPC is back online
ftp://ftp.wtfo.com/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc/ Is one site. RPM's are there, and should be tracking the main cooker, aside from those that are not appropriate for PPC or need patching. Installer is not yet, but should be forthcoming. In case you're not familiar with cooker, it is not recommended for production systems, and you could possibly break your system by installing certain of these packages overtop of an existing 8.0 setup. On my local system I duplicated my / partition and then began building/upgrading to cooker on the new partition, so I could always fall back to 8.0 if necessary. The build machine in Paris is now building the cooker RPMs and upgrading itself in the process. I particular be aware that glibc, locales and rpm itself have been updated, and these can affect the behavior of many things. Have Fun! Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
