Now that the installation of MintPPC for G3 and G4 works, it is time to focus my attention to MintPPC64. I have now successfully set up a cross compilation environment on my Asus laptop. The idea is to compile the missing ppc64 packages on this machine and to then upload them into the MintPPC64 repo. I will then also have to amend the preseed file for this architecture. If all is well, people willing to test it on their G5 may contact me. I don’t have a G5 here just yet.
That’s a great news – but no rush then! Happy to try this on my PowerMac G5 when its ready.
I found my G5 iMacs, I only need a power cable.
The power cable is there and both iMacs still work…
Fantastic! 😀 Aside from liquid cooling on a few late Power Macs, those things are unbreakable from that days.
A small update:
I downloaded the latest snapshot debian netinstaller image and burned it onto a CD-R. The iMac G5 was able to boot from the CD and went successfully into the Debian installer. After a short break, which will take a week, I will start testing installing MintPPC64.
Another update
I can install MintPPC64 again. The only thing missing are browsers. I am working on that. It won’t take long anymore from here.
Ok, the browsers are in the repo. I do one last installation to see if it all works as planned.