Hi! Here is a new test image [1] which is supposed to test the proper partitioningof the HFS boot partition and mounting it to /boot/grub. Note: This image will *not* install GRUB yet properly. The purpose of this image is just to test whether the changes I made to the package partman-auto and the new packages hfsprogs-udeb …
Category Archives: Installation
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
MintPPC available for AmigaOne X5000
It was just reported that MintPPC is available for Amigaone X5000 users. Have a look here.
Arcticfox 27.11.0 released
Today you can upgrade Arcticfox to version 27.11.0 in MintPPC. Release notes
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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.
MintPPC installable again
Just a small update: MintPPC can be installed again. Please read the installation instructions.