Op 1-mei-2011, om 23:28 heeft Ken Moffat het volgende geschreven: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:03:49PM +0200, Pol Vangheluwe wrote: >> I installed LFS-6.8 and I am now continuing with BLFS (Version svn-20110417) >> >> The PAM-page says that I must reinstall shadow 4.1.4.2 while LFS-6.8 >> installed shadow -4.1.4.3. >> I assume that I can safely reinstall shadow-4.4.4.3? >> >> pvg >> > (…) > However, I haven't built a fresh system since last December, I > don't use PAM, and it's a *lot* longer (basically, LFS-6.6) since I > built any ppc system [ that comment is based on you previous posting > ], so YMMV - I'm still using ppc, but the (replaced last year) > battery on my ibook no longer holds much charge, and my "built as > cheaply as possible" late-model G5 uniprocessor runs warmly and > slowly, so my view is that "mainstream" ppc is dieing. > > LFS, of course, hasn't really supported ppc since about LFS-3, but > some of us have tried to keep it working - feel free to carry the > "holy flame" ;-) 0_0 > > ĸen > -- > das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page
I've successfully built LFS-6.4 and LFS-6.6 on a PowerPC 7200 (287.376 MB RAM and 358.392 MB swap). I had a hard time upgrading the host system (MkLinux from 2000) until it matched the requirements for LFS-6.4 but from then on, there were few problems. The second time was much easier, because i could start from my LFS-6.4. I even installed X-windows and GNOME, although it is too slow to be useful. I am now working with a PowerPC 7600 (194.644 MB RAM and 156.236 MB swap) because it has a better videocard and I want to try again GNOME on it. My host system is this time "Ubuntu-8.04.1-server-powerpc4" (the last version for ppc - indeed ppc is not really hot…) The only problem I encountered so far was lack of memory to compile gcc. Happily enough, I could combine the swap-space of the host partition and the LFS partition to work around it. I was in doubt reporting this to the LFS-team (the section "Host System Requirements" does not mention minimum RAM required) but indeed, this is irrelevant for most of you with gigabytes of RAM and disk space. I still find it exciting how a brandnew Linux can run on HW that is discontinued since about 15 years. BTW: I cannot use a bootloader like grub on an old-world PowerMac, so I have to jump into Linux from (an early stage of) MacOS with bootX. The big advantage of this is that I cannot break my Linux system by messing around with boot parameters. I have always MacOs as fallback in case of problems. BTW: I also install netatalk (free source Appletalk) on every LFS-system. Isn't it a shame that BLFS is not dealing with it? pvg -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
