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 Post subject: FC4
PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:25 am 
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ftp://zeniv.uk.linux.org/pub/people/dwmw2/fc4-pegasos/
ftp://zeniv.uk.linux.org/pub/people/dwm ... ME.Pegasos

Fedora for the ODW. Thanks to David Woodhouse and also to Colin Charles.

FC5 will come out of the gate supporting the platform.

Great Work! Thanks guys!

R&B :-)


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 Post subject: Re: FC4
PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:55 pm 
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Well I tryed this and it booted fine
Did and FTP install, the GUI came up and went all the way to the confirm install page
clicked the next button and got an error
Image

nels


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 Post subject: Re: FC4
PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:34 pm 
That problem ought to be fixed now. It _was_ documented in README.Pegasos until I fixed it yesterday. Update your local copy (from rsync://zeniv.uk.linux.org/ftp/pub/people/dwmw2/fc4-pegasos/ ) and try again -- or just do a text install.


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 Post subject: Re: FC4
PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:44 pm 
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@nels - it seems you downloaded it before David fixed the bug which prevented the GUI install from working. It is working now.

Thanks David! Great work!

R&B


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 Post subject: Re: FC4
PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:10 am 
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Good job David and Colin!

If we get the Pegasos 100% supported in Fedora PPC
it will be a major step for our beloved platform.

The average person who have heard anything about Linux
in 9 cases out of 10 heard about Red Hat..


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 Post subject: Re: FC4
PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:49 am 
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 Post subject: Re: FC4
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:08 pm 
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Thanks David

I got Fedora Core 4 running on my Pegasos II. :D
I rsync'ed all to a linux box on my lan and installed with NFS
The automatic partition worked for the last 20M of free space on the harddrive.
The install took about 15 min.
All the programs I tryed have worked
The 3D screensavers are slow.

nels


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 Post subject: Re: FC4
PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:32 pm 
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Hello All,

I did a 'yum update' for Fedora Core 4 with the normal repos ( no testing or develepment)
it updated the kernel to 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 so I tryed it and it works.
No errors in the 'dmesg' listing, sound works, and the GLscreensavers are much faster .

It is nice to know that the standerd PPC kernel in FC4 is working for the Pegasos 2

nels


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 Post subject: Re: FC4
PostPosted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:41 am 
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We are pretty pleased with this effort and looking forward to official support in FC5. We wonder of this support will get noticed by RedHat...;-)

R&B :-)


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 Post subject: Re: FC4
PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:07 pm 
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We are pretty pleased with this effort and looking forward to official support in FC5.
Proper FC5 support is conditional on actually being able to boot from the CD-ROM. The current firmware on the Pegasos II doesn't handle ISO9660, as is required by CHRP. I'm not sure if network booting is working either. At the moment, we still have to hack up our own 'boot.ext2' CD for Pegasos.


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 Post subject: Re: FC4
PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:55 pm 
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We are pretty pleased with this effort and looking forward to official support in FC5.
Proper FC5 support is conditional on actually being able to boot from the CD-ROM. The current firmware on the Pegasos II doesn't handle ISO9660, as is required by CHRP. I'm not sure if network booting is working either. At the moment, we still have to hack up our own 'boot.ext2' CD for Pegasos.
Well, it doesn handle iso9660, there is just a little glitch in the read method i am fixing, load is ok though. network booting works just fine (and is lightyears more friendly to do than on apple hardware, just tried to do netbooting on my powerbook yesterday, don't even let the dhcp serverset the booting filename, not to mention that yaboot is over--buggy when using the rarp method).

As for CD booting, i think the proper way would be for you to use the nifty mkzimage or mkvmlinuz tool to produce a kernel with builtin initrd, and add it to the CD iso, you said you have place on it, so you can easily boot that on pegasos, there should be not problem with disk yaboot support for the installed system. Also, grub2 is known to work just fine on the pegasos.

Anyway, what is the release schedule of FC5 ? A couple of month of ? We should definitively have this fixed ways before then :)

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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 Post subject: Re: FC4
PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:09 am 
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We're moving away from the hacks to combine vmlinux and initrd -- I'd have to change the kernel package to provide extra bits which it doesn't currently provide, and I don't think I'd get away with doing that for the benefit of Pegasos. It's more likely that I'd get away with just providing a boot.ext2.

Network booting stalled for me because of problems with my MAC address, iirc. Was there a resolution to that? Yaboot tftp support is being worked on; file bugs in Red Hat bugzilla if it offends you. I'm about to update the netboot patch in the rawhide yaboot package.

Release schedule is always a bit fluid but current plans are shown at http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/


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 Post subject: Re: FC4
PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:30 pm 
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OK, thanks for keeping it all moving ahead.

And, THANKS to you and Colin for this:

http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Suppo ... hlight=%25

Great! :-D

R&B :-)


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