Hi Bill,
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 12:36:17 -0700
Bill Chatfield <bill_chatfield(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
OK don't dump on me please. :-) What is the best place to find
instructions for how I would go about building an install CD for
Fedora 20/21 for ppc32? I almost had Fedora 17 PPC working on it but
I gave up because it wasn't really supported. I have run Debian
Wheezy and Lubuntu 14.04 on this PowerBook G4 machine, but I would
really like to have it running Fedora. I'm an experience Linux admin
and developer but I have never build a full distribution from source.
I know you don't officially support this, but if you could give me
some pointers about how I could go about it, I will go away and leave
you alone. :-) Thanks.
for F-21 we dropped 32-bit completely, so it is out of scope. F-20 has
the 32-bit variant for (almost) all packages built, but as for creating
a working installation CD one needs working anaconda (the installer
application) and other tools, I'm very sceptical, because no-one tested
them whether they don't blow up in 32-bit mode. But you can look at the
pungi tool (creates the installation tree and media) and lorax
(called by pungi, creates the installer initrd/liveos images). Not sure
if it is worth the efforts. What might be doable is to transfer a
preinstalled F-20 root filesystem (eg. via mock chroot) to the G4 disk.
Dan