Hi, I have 2 Efika's here that I want to bring back to life (one was my web server but Debian crashed...)

What is the last platform known to install on the Efika? I tried Debian Etch (not available any more), Gentoo (incomplete description), OpenSuse (the same). I saw that there were some efforts on BSD, which would be an alternative.

Thanks in advance
Olivier

Hi Olivier, have you tried this:

http://www.powerdeveloper.org/platforms/efika/susedemo

For something completely different:

http://www.morphos-team.net/downloads.html
http://library.morphzone.org/Links

Best regards,
R&B

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Hi Bill, many thanks for the prompt response. I'll give it a try.

Cheers
Olivier

If you in past use Amiga and AmigaOS .
MorphOS will be a fun os for you :)

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Well, from what I saw, MorphOS requires a graphics card while my systems are headless (just servers). So, in a first attempt, I'll try OpenSuse :-)

MorphOS have a virtual monitor to :)

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Nice ;)

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Hi all!

A quick note to confirm that the system is back to life, many thanks! I could even recover the various partitions on the disk. I made a small mistake in my last edit of fstab and lost control on the machine but I'll fix it tomorrow (enough emotions for today).

BTW, tar gave me an error when uncompressing the kernel (funnily enough, 7zip is perfectly happy on my PC, not sure why I got the warning).

Next step will be to reconfigure yast to download the packages and reinstall the tools that I had.

Cheers
Olivier

I have a question regarding the devices (hope Peter still reads this forum...): I see /dev/mpc52xx_ata[1,2,3,4,5,6] as I would expect (the disk indeed has 5 data partitions) but the system nearly crashed when I tried to use them: I can use them for pure data partitions but executables seem to miss their x flag. Worse, it reports errors when booting so I fear something went wrong during the install. I started an fsck in the morning to see if things can be repaired but will reformat and reinstall if I can't fix it quickly (I have no data on the disk yet, so nothing to loose).

On the other hand, I expected to find /dev/sda[1,2,3,4,5,6] but see only sda, sda1 and sdb (the latter is my pendrive). The original install mapped / on sda3 in fstab, which does not exist (but it worked!!!)

CRUX PPC still supports the nice little Efika PPC, provided that you need a working and modern system...

http://cruxppc.org/ReleaseNotes2-7
http://cruxppc.org/Handbook2-7
http://cruxppc.org/EfikaInstall#m3

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Nello, that's great news!!! I looked at the limitations and they are nothing to complain about. Furthermore, it is more recent than the Suse demo.

I'll give it a try. Thanks for the heads up!

Olivier

I still read the forum, but I don't use my EFIKA PPC any more. When I have time, I rather work on EFIKA MX. Of course, I still follow the opensuse-ppc mailing list, as it's low traffic and part of my heart still runs on PPC :-) Here is the information I collected from recent threads:

* openSUSE 11.1 (which was the last official PPC release) is not supported any more
* openSUSE PPC repo is still regularly updated and most software compiles
* the installer does not build currently, so a fresh install from current repositories is not possible
* continuous upgrading from 11.1 worked fine on the Mac, EFIKA PPC kernel support was not recently tested, and upgrading from 11.1 to 12.1 could prove difficult/impossible anyway as it's jumping three releases

As far as I know, Crux is still actively maintained on EFIKA PPC. Also, last year I prepared an Ubuntu installer, which worked, and could probably still used.

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Yes, we should have remembered CruxPPC:

http://projects.powerdeveloper.org/project/efika/322

Also, here...

http://cruxppc.org/

The Crux Team have been loyal supporters for years. They have been great!

R&B :)

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Well, still struggling. Crux looks nice but it's not as easy as I thought to get started. For NFS booting, I would need a specially crafted kernel, for which I have to install a Linux virtual machine (I'm usually on Windows and FreeBSD - could investigate cygwin by any chance) with a cross-compiler. I tried the kernel on the ISO but the Efika did not seem to recognize it. If all else fails...

Then, I took the option of the USB stick. I read that it had to be formatted in ext2, so I tried to format it and store a dummy file to check that I could read it... but I don't see the file. I thought the Efika could read both FAT32 and ext2 file systems: is that right? If yes, what parameters should I use for the file system? Crux mentions inodes of 128 byte but my mkfs does not support less than 1024. Any recommendation for the block size also?

Thanks in advance - Olivier

hi R&B,
thanks a lot for your kind words and your great support across the years. I really appreciate it.

--nico

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