This message is to let others with PowerPC's know about my efforts at getting the Debian base-powerpc.tar.gz loaded and running on my PMAC 7500/200.
I started by taking a bare partition created under LinuxPPC and untarring the tarball. I next used Quik from LinuxPPC on the MacOS side to make the partition bootable. I put version 2.1.125 of the LinuxPPC that I compiled on my machine on this parition. I copied my existing fstab from LinuxPPC and changed it to only include the new partition as /. I also copied over my network configuration information and other goodies that help get me on the internet. I then used the Boot Variables program on the MacOS side to boot onto the new partition. This worked 8^O. I was now running Debian based Linux. One problem! No development tools. To fix this problem I built the following packages under LinuxPPC as statically linked programs: automake autoconf m4 gawk binutils make egcs pmacs-utils (clock, nvsetenv, ...) I installed them on the Debian parition by changing the prefix variable when performing the install. BTW, I set the prefix with configure to /usr for all except the pmac-utils which was set to /. This too worked. I rebooted back into Debian linux. I re-built the most of the programs under Debian Linux using glibc-2.0.96. I had some problems with "features.h" and "libio.h". The definition of _IO_fpos64_t seems to be missing (or not properly included). I will try to solve this problem over the next couple of nights. Also, I build egcs with Ada. The Ada compiler portion has some problems that might need a cross-compiler initially. I will probably look into this over the weekend. Just thought I would share this experience... Andrew Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________ More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail
