New to list today.(sorry) Is the development tree ok for testing by interested parties?
Missing files in /Fedora/Base and /images Googled the ones at Duke but tree is older and missing files do not work on new tree. Anaconda fails. Build stamp or something on header file order/version? Ftp at Duke was to slow to downgrade if there is a working version of the missing files.
Would love to test both 32bit and 64bit. I have 450mz cube and Dual G5. Might even go get a Powerbook in the not to distant future.
Have FC2 on amd64 and 32 machines. Have had 0 lockups on either machine since installed. Few odd bugs but very usable and stable.
Am cancer patient with daytime on my hands. Am tired of waiting for SCO to die.(It is only a matter of time though)
Am lucid and semi-competent with 2 athlon linux machines, 1 athlon linux laptop, 1 MacOsx Dual G5, 1 G4 Cube, 1 amd64 linux, 1 Xbox Xebian 1.02, Sharp Zaurus 5600. Have numerus hardware setups ATI 9800,ATI 9600,ATI 7000, Rage 128, Xbox chip video chip(can't remember offhand), Dvd writer sony, Superdrives, CD recorders, Bttv cards, 4 different video cams, tv cards, etc. Over 1 terrabyte combined HD storage. Broadband routers, wireless B router and access points, switches, hubs, usb hubs, DV video cameras, usb storage devices, KVM switches, LCD flat screens, 5 printers/lasers.(One sick puppy I think)
Have 2 dual athlon MP boards w/chips if anybody wants to pay shipping. Either MB's broke or CPU's broke, but 1 processer will run on both machines. I believe they are both odd frq chips 1900mhz and 2100mhz. Seems I have better luck with all athlons with even mhz ie 2600,3000. Have wasted to much time on them recently, moving on.(Without warranty of course) Am moving in 30 days don't want to toss if anybody wants. Contact me if interested.
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 10:37:55PM -0700, Marshall Clark wrote:
New to list today.(sorry)
fedora-ppc list which you have already started this thread on is probably more appropriate, as others here may be intrested in ppc state I'll repeat my reply here, hopefully in a consolidated manor.
Also just a quick note - if you are moving questions to a new list please choose a more meaningful topic, had I not seen your posts elsewhere I would not have none from the Subject that it was fedora ppc specific. For a good guide on composing emails and choosing forums please see:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Is the development tree ok for testing by interested parties?
Testing is always welcome - however if you are testing rawhide or even a full test release I point you at Jeff Spaleta's summary:
"Test releases eat babies. The nvidia driver, is just one of the many juicy suculant babies the test process will devour. This and worse is to be expected."
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-April/msg01469.html
The development tree is often changing installs are impossible due to it not being self consistent (dependancies getting out of sync, etc). Also note you do not explicitly mention you are testing ppc which is NOT a supported platform for fedora.
Missing files in /Fedora/Base and /images
This is ppc rawhide specific. To clarify rawhide is now missing the boot.iso and stage2 images:
As already mentioned in personal mail and fedora-ppc list we know about this and it's in bugzilla - if you want to track the process please add your CC to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124657
That way you'll know about it as soon as it's fixed :)
Googled the ones at Duke but tree is older and missing files do not work on new tree.
As I mentioned to you before rawhide can break, the tree at duke is installable and works well if you follow the instructions here:
http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.html
The tree is available via http here - http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/fedorappc/ I don't think it is available via ftp.
I have installed this tree on a iBook G3, iMac DV SE, G3 Powerbook (Lombard), and yum updated a YDL install on a G5 (directly off the duke repo by http). Looking at the remaining issues in the installer is on my TODO but not my highest priority task.
This works for fedorappc by design, as rwahide can break it is a known working snapshot. A number of people aren't experiencing your b/w issues against that server so it may be a local issue. As it's a snapshot as of 14 May so v. close to FC2. I will try and find an additional mirror to push that snapshot to but
You could try a http install using the boot.iso and pointing at that tree.
Anaconda fails.
If you have the entire tree you can run buildinstall to create the images/stage2. See the Anaconda Documentation project for details:
http://rau.homedns.org/twiki/bin/view/Anaconda/AnacondaDocumentationProject
Would love to test both 32bit and 64bit. I have 450mz cube and Dual G5. Might even go get a Powerbook in the not to distant future.
Thanks for your intrest in Fedora ppc, as you can see we are not quite there yet, most of the issues on ppc32 are known, biarch shouldn't be too much work off our tree as we will mostly run 32bit user space.
If you are expecting a fully working distribution may be better off waiting for YellowDog Linux 4 release which is based on Fedora Core 2, at the moment a Fedora Core install requires manual testing and won't work out of the box as smoothly as it does on x86 and x86_64. Getting a installable FC2+updates tree is something I wish to do as is having mac as a fully supported FC3 platform but as mentioned it's really a question of developer time and priorities.
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