Thanks to Ben Reser's gracious offer to host it, there is now an installer ISO available to facilitate Cooker PPC testing. The ISO contains NO RPMs, but gives you the necessary bits to boot from CD and initiate either a network or HD install, using your downloaded RPMs from the mirrors.
http://mirror.brain.org/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-ppc/cooker-install-iso/ Please don't try to do a network install from Ben's mirror, just download the ISO image to preserve the bandwidth for other folks. It's generally better to do a local network install rather than over the net, since cooker packages can be changing while you're trying to install them. I've done several successful cooker install on my iMac using this ISO. There were a couple of small mods I had to make to the 8.2 install sequence, but it all seems to be working now. I'm not real interested in installer issues, as 9.0 x86 made significant changes to the installer, and part of my goals for 9.1 will be to try to catch back up with the main installer and get it working again on PPC. If you do find issues, go ahead and post, just be aware that the installer will be undergoing change. Thanks Ben! Here's the README: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.1cooker_install.iso image README Oct 21, 2002 S. Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is an ISO snapshot of the 8.2 installer image, with the versioning information changed to reflect 9.1 Cooker. What this ISO provides: All of the necessary installer files and kernel images to do a Cooker install. What this ISO does not provide: The RPM packages needed by the installer. Why no packages?: During the cooker cycle, packages change rapidly. Due to the hardware limitations we have for building the PPC version, it's barely possible to keep up with new package releases. Trying to create new ISO images, with ISO's on a regular basic would slow down this process, plus they would become obsolete quite quickly as the packages are updated. Why an ISO at all?: The lack of some sort of ISO image to be able to kick off the install seems to be a significant barrier in getting people to participate in the Cooker PPC process. Providing a small ISO with the installer files will allow more people to participate, without having to learn the details of creating a set of ISOs themselves. What can I do with this thing? Hopefully, once burned to CD, you will be able to boot your Mac with this image. Once you've booted, you can do either a network or hard disk install, provided you have downloaded the necessary RPMs from the cooker-ppc mirrors. How do I burn the CD? Before you burn, check the md5sum on your downloaded iso: [stew@rs6000 disk2]$ md5sum -c 9.1cooker_install.md5 9.1cooker_install.iso: OK MacOS: No clue here. I've never burned a CD in MacOS, and don't care to purchase any software to learn how. Check the cooker-ppc mail list archives for hints. <More details from the user-base are welcome here> Linux: Here's how I did it just a few minutes ago: cdrecord -v dev=1,0,0 blank=fast -data -eject 9.1cooker_install.iso Your device may be different. cdrecord -scanbus will list the devices. OK, now what?: You need to prep your RPM download directory. this can be on another machine for network install, or on an ext2 partition on the same machine for a hardrive install. There is a tarball of the installer image on the CD, which you should untar in your destination directory. In this example, I'm using /export. tar -xzf 9.1cooker_install.tgz /export The important thing is that it looks something like this when you're done: [stew@rs6000 disk2]$ ls -l /export/ total 32 drwxrwxr-x 6 stew stew 4096 Oct 15 04:40 Mandrake drwxr-xr-x 4 stew stew 4096 Oct 19 03:38 misc "Mandrake" is the home of the second stage installer and your RPMS. "misc" has some tools that might be useful, should you care to create your own ISOs. Now you need to have all of your downloaded RPM packages under Mandrake/RPMS. cp -a /DIR-WITH-RPMS /export/Mandrake/RPMS Finally you need to regenerated the deplist and hdlists in Mandrake/base: gendistrib --distrib /export These files are in the ISO, but only reflect the state of my RPM tree at the time the ISO was produced. They must be updated to reflect your current RPM tree. You make see some errors related to dependencies, depending on the current state of "wellness" of the cooker mirror. When you do the install, you will want to point the network or hard disk install to the directory you just created. More details on the install process are on the ISO in the doc and Tutorials directories. Once you boot the CD, choose network or hard drive install and follow the prompts. Stage2 will load from your install source and the install should continue. don't be alarmed by references to 8.2 in the graphics etc., these will be updated in the future. Remember, this is just an early tool to facilitate package testing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
