Automated installation

Just a few minutes ago an automated installation of MintPPC32 using a preseed file succeeded. I will have to test if the system boots. I will do that tomorrow. It is late here. Booting the system I see a black screen, blinking cursor…I have the fix: boot into recovery mode and do the following:mv /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so …

XFCE4

Since recently it is possible to run Linux Mint XFCE on top of LXDE. To install this one has to first install MintPPC. Then:sudo apt install task-xfce-desktop xfce4-xapp-status-plugin mint-xfce-default-settingscp -r /etc/skel/.config /home/your_user_name Logout and login into the XFCE session. MintPPC XFCE is available for G4 and G5.

SeaLion update

Wicknix released SeaLion 32.5.1. Note that this package has been built in an old Linux environment. To get it working in MintPPC32 I had to do the following: install libffi7 from snapshots:wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20210222T080642Z/pool-powerpc/main/libf/libffi/libffi7_3.3-6_powerpc.debsudo dpkg -i libffi7_3.3-6_powerpc.deb install multiarch-support from snapshotswget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20190502T022320Z/pool-powerpc/main/g/glibc/multiarch-support_2.28-10_powerpc.debsudo dpkg -i multiarch-support_2.28-10_powerpc.deb install libjpeg8 from snapshotswget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20141009T042436Z/pool/main/libj/libjpeg8/libjpeg8_8d1-2_powerpc.debsudo dpkg -i libjpeg8_8d1-2_powerpc.deb I will add …

systemd-less and temporary installation instructions

For the people who would like to try booting with sysvinit instead of systemd I wrote a page dedicated to this. The instructions can also be used to install MintPPC under the current circumstances as debian-installer is broken: grub installation fails again. With the instructions of systemd-less installation one can also install MintPPC by using …

Sysvinit – no systemd

Lately I have been experimenting with a Debian sid ppc64 system without systemd. Systemd is the default nowadays in Debian. In the old days all ‘services’ or ‘daemons’ were managed by init scripts. I was able to install sysvinit and to dump systemd from a base Debian install. I then installed a desktop (LXDE). It …