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New installer images

Could you please try the new installer images and report back any issues? You might want to install plain Debian or MintPPC, up to you.Link to images

Posted byadminDecember 3, 2020Posted inInstallation36 Comments on New installer images

MintPPC available for AmigaOne X5000

It was just reported that MintPPC is available for Amigaone X5000 users. Have a look here.

Posted byadminNovember 19, 2020Posted inInstallationLeave a comment on MintPPC available for AmigaOne X5000

Arcticfox 27.11.0 released

Today you can upgrade Arcticfox to version 27.11.0 in MintPPC. Release notes

Posted byadminOctober 28, 2020November 2, 2020Posted inInstallation6 Comments on Arcticfox 27.11.0 released

Grub problem

I just tried to install MintPPC on a gifted PowerBook G4 (thanks Martin from Austria). I found out the the grub-installer failed to install grub. It is unfortunate that people do not report this. It is possible that MintPPC was not installable for months. If I would have known this, I could have looked at […]

Posted byadminOctober 10, 2020October 10, 2020Posted inInstallation81 Comments on Grub problem

Remove mintinput

The package mintinput was written in python back in 2011, which cannot be used anymore with python2. I would recommend any of you using this package to get rid of it as it refrains you from updating your MintPPC system. Please do the following to remove it from the system: sudo dpkg -r mintinput

Posted byadminAugust 12, 2020Posted inInstallationLeave a comment on Remove mintinput

Older versions of MintPPC

Recently I went through my storage room in the attic and found an old G4 MDD with various versions of MintPPC on it. It was one of the machines I used to test and develop MintPPC on back in the days. If there is interest in say MintPPC 11, I can make a disk image […]

Posted byadminJuly 14, 2020July 14, 2020Posted inInstallation8 Comments on Older versions of MintPPC

isight-firmware-tools

Today I built isight-firmware-tools for ppc64 and added it to the 64-bits repository. Apple Built-in iSight requires firmware that can be extracted from the Mac OS X USBVideo driver. This package provides tools for extracting the firmware from the driver and installing udev rules and tools to automatically load the firmware when needed. I tested […]

Posted byadminJuly 9, 2020July 9, 2020Posted inInstallationLeave a comment on isight-firmware-tools

MintPPC Live

I have got a version of MintPPC32 that runs as a live USB stick! Simply dd the image onto a stick and boot from the stick right into MintPPC. This is a USB image with persistent storage! I have never achieved something like this before. I will update soon.

Posted byadminJuly 6, 2020July 6, 2020Posted inInstallation14 Comments on MintPPC Live

MintPPC installable again

Just a small update: MintPPC can be installed again. Please read the installation instructions.

Posted byadminJuly 6, 2020Posted inInstallation85 Comments on MintPPC installable again

Help: server space and bandwidth needed!

As you are probably aware of, installing MintPPC is not always successful. This has to do with the fact that MintPPC is based on Debian sid, which is the unstable version of Debian. Debian stopped releasing stable versions for the powerpc and ppc64 architectures. What we are dealing with nowadays is Debian-ports. What is Debian-ports […]

Posted byadminJune 27, 2020Posted inInstallation12 Comments on Help: server space and bandwidth needed!

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