January 2006 - Arch-ports - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-ports] Main Mirror Website for PPC outage
by Alexander Baldeck 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Hey all, I've been updating the kernel last night to include some patches etc. Unfortunately mkinitrd didn't play nice, so the machine didn't come back up. The admins over at my ISP are trying to get the machine back up right now and I hope the issue will be solved until Monday, the 8th January at latest. For the time being, no website, no ftp no CVS repo. Sorry for the inconvenience! :( Regards, Alex - kth5

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[arch-ports] install archlinuxppc on a powerbook g4
by Benoit Chesneau 05 Jan '06

05 Jan '06

Hi all, Today I reinstalled my powerbook g4 with archlinuxppc since I broke /var/lib/pacman last week and can't reinstall any packages ... Find here a quick summary of steps I follow : 1) Download and burn the iso : ftp://ftp.archlinuxppc.org/iso/snapshots/2005-07-02_archppc.iso.bz2 2) At boot go in the open firmware shell (command + option + O + F) and type the folowing : boot cd:,\\yaboot This command allow your powerbook to boot on archlinuxppc cd. 3) Set up the network : I use a powerbook with airport extreme (powerbook 5,6) so I have to use ethernet to install archlinux. So I load sungem module : modprobe sungem. For owner of titanium powerbook or ibook, you just have to load airport module : modprobe airport Dhcp ddidn't work actually on archlinuxppc install, you have to manually set up network : ifconfig eth0 <IP> route add default gw <GATEWAY> Edit /etc/resolv.conf with vim and add your nameservers, ie enter line like it : nameserver IP.OF.NAMESERVER1 nameserver IP.OF.NAMESERVER2 3) Create your partitions and format then : mac-fdisk /dev/discs/disc0/disc - Erase default partitions : I only install linux on the powerbook, so I erased all partition : type i - Create apple boot partion : type b - Add your partitions : I actually use a simple partition shema : / -> 15G swap -> 1,5G /home -> 55 G Result of partitionning : --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 64 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 31457280 @ 1664 ( 15.0G) Linux native /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 3072000 @ 31458944 ( 1.5G) Linux swap /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 home 121770544 @ 34530944 ( 58.1G) Linux native Block size=512, Number of Blocks=156301488 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Format partitions with ext3 filesystem: mke2fs -j /dev/discs/disc0/part3 mke2fs -j /dev/discs/disc0/part5 - Format swap partition : mkswap /dev/discs/disc0/part4 4) Create a chrooted archlinuxppc - Mount your partitions : mount -t ext3 /dev/discs/disc0/part3 /mnt mkdir /mnt/home mount -t ext3 /dev/discs/disc0/part5 /mnt/home - Dl quickinst. Actually quickinst isn't on cd and you need a modified script from i686 version. Type the following : cd /tmp wget ftp://ftp.archlinuxppc.org/other/quickinst - Install the base : cd /tmp ./quickinst ftp /mnt ftp://ftp.archlinuxppc.org/current/os/ppc - Mount chroot mount -t proc none /mnt/proc mount -t sysfs none /mnt/sys mount /mnt /bin/bash source /etc/profile udevstart Nb: udevstart create right devices in /dev 5) Edit configuration files file /etc/fstab; /etc/rc.conf, /etc/yaboot.conf, /etc/hosts *) Example of /etc/fstab with previous patition shema: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 #/dev/cdrom /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 #/dev/cdrom /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/hda4 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 /home ext3 defaults 1 1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- *) Example of /etc/yaboot.conf --------------------------------------------------------------------------- boot=/dev/hda2 device=/pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0: partition=3 delay=10 timeout=40 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot image=/boot/vmlinux26 label=Linux root=/dev/hda3 initrd=/boot/initrd26.img read-only --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: to obtain device line, type the following on the shell: ofpath /dev/hda Example of /etc/rc.conf --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCALE=en_US.utf8 HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" TIMEZONE=Europe/Paris KEYMAP=mac-fr-ext_new CONSOLEFONT=lat9w-16 CONSOLEMAP= USECOLOR="yes" MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes" MOD_BLACKLIST=() MODULES=(sungem !usbserial) USELVM="no" HOSTNAME="enlil.metavers.net" lo="lo 127.0.0.1" eth0="eth0 192.168.0.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" INTERFACES=(lo eth0) gateway="default gw 192.168.0.254" ROUTES=(gateway) DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !hotplug !pcmcia network netfs crond sshd) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note : If u use airport device add airport to your module list and add eth1 to your ethernet devices. To have airport as eth1 devices add these line to /etc/modprobe.conf alias sungem eth0 alias airport eth1 6) Install kernel & openssh pacman -Sy kernel26-pmac openssh 7) Install yaboot in the boot (be sure to have edited yaboot.conf) mkofboot ybin -v 8) Add a password to the root : passwd root 9) add a user useradd <USERNAME> 10) Reboot That it and now you can use your powerbook with archlinux ppc, install X and so on... with pacman :) - Benoît

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[arch-ports] archlinuxppc: bug with xorg7 in TESTING
by Benoit Chesneau 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

There are currently 2 bugs while installing xorg. The first one is critical : Bugs : 1) /etc/x11 isn't created at install. Or is there any possibility to recreate it by hand at the end of install ? 2) Problem xorg-fonts-misc package : /var/lib/pacman/local.xorg-fonts-misc-1.0.0-1/install: line 3: usr/bin/fc-cache: Nos such file or directory This package doesn't depend on fontconfig or xorg-server. So fontconfig is installed after. Note: I installed xorg-server with this command line : pacman -Sy xorg-server pacman -S xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse xf86-video-ati xterm pacman -S xorg-fonts-100dpi xorg-fonts-75dpi xorg-fonts-type1 Hope it will help, Regards. - Benoît

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[arch-ports] [arch64] kernel 2.6.15 and mkinitrd going to current
by Andreas Radke 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

if you haven't already used the testing kernels you can soon update the kernel from current repo. just follow the instructions from our 32bit archlinux mother for creating and customizing the initrd. udev will be next. but some dependencies still need to be resolved. AndyRTR

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[arch-ports] pb while installing kde 3.5 in testing
by Benoit Chesneau 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

I tryed this morning to install kde but I can't due to a dependancy error, rar isn't in the db. Hope it will hel :) - Benoît

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