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

06 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 04 Jan '06

04 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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[arch-ports] arch64: testing kernel26
by Gernot Pansy 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

there is an bug in PKGBUILD in line 62: asm-i386 needs to be changed to asm-x64_64 othwerwise it's immpossible to build the fglrx modul. how to i get an svn account ? i want to help building some packages. i already have made some packges, and i think the are quite useful for the community (ati-drivers, lvm2, ). gernot

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[arch-ports] Development of Arch64 / site arch64.org still down
by Dieter Rethmeyer 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Hello, I am a new arch64 user and I am interested in making Arch64 an good, perhaps the best 64-bit distribution. At the moment I am using Arch32 as some applications are not available in Arch64, so I try to compile them here (with more or less success). My base Arch64 system is running and digikam works already :) What about arch64.org? - it is still down. Do you know when the site will be up again? Another question about package updates: Will updates still be made with pacman in Arch64 or ist there another solution planned? And, at last: If I suceed in compiling some programs I use (just working on digikam and postfix - having trouble with mc, acroread, openoffice.org2) - are you interested in the results (PKGBUILDs, binaries, problems I have)? Shall compilation problems and possible solutions be discussed on this mailing list? Dieter

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[arch-ports] get svn
by Mr Green 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Hi, Talk to seshu or c14n ... ;-) Welcome to Archlinux64 MrGreen

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[arch-ports] troubles
by Drew Cousino 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

I have two problems: one with the nvidia package and the other with pacman. Nvidia problem: I cannot install the nvidia package. I always run into the error that the installer cannot find /usr/lib/libGL.so.1, and yet it exists in my filesystem. Pacman problem: Whenever I run pacman -Syu, it asks me to update libpcap to version 0.8.3-1. However, pacman -Q libpcap says that I already have that version installed. Also I have found the following packages install with unaltered abs PKGBUILDs: acroread 7.0.1-1 apcupsd 3.10.18-1 aspell-en 6.0-1 lesstif 0.94.4-3 libdvdcss 1.2.9-2 libwmf 0.2.8.4-1 vorbis-tools 1.1.1-1 xine-ui 0.99.4-1 xmms-skins 0.3-1 I should note that xpdf requires lesstif, but lesstif isn't in the 64 bit repo. Drew

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[arch-ports] testing repo
by seshu yamajala 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

we finally started a testing repo for arch64. there is now a kernel26 package in it and some other things by andytr. ganja_guru has also made a good number of updates to current. things are moving along. a little slowly but their moving. hopefully i'll have sometime during my christmas vacation to do things. - syamajala

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[arch-ports] ArchLinux PPC News
by Alexander Baldeck 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Hello list, once again we have some news I thought they would be worth to be mentioned: 1) archlinuxppc.org has arrived It took a while for me to consider my options and now I have found an affordable solution that will fit our needs perfectly. The new server is more or less set and all major services are migrated. Web: http://www.archlinuxppc.org (needs some more work though) CVS: The following are available: CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.archlinuxppc.org:/home/cvs-current" / MODULE: current CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.archlinuxppc.org:/home/cvs-extra" / MODULE: extra We have implemented a similar way of doing things by tagging CURRENT or TESTING analog to what the i686 guys invented, that means "testing" became obsolete and was merged with "current" and tagged accordingly. FTP: All packages including ISO-snapshots are available via anonymous-ftp from here: ftp://ftp.archlinuxppc.org It might take a while until I have done a Pacman package with the new list, for now the few of you using ArchPPC should edit their lists manually. RSYNC: The module structure staid the same but the domain has changed so feel free to use: archlinuxppc.org::archppc-current archlinuxppc.org::archppc-extra and last but not least: archlinuxppc.org::archppc-testing 2) PowerMac kernel now implements INITRD changes I have made the effort to integrate mkinitrd and all necessary changes to the kernel26-pmac package. For now it seem more or less stable. Glad that tpowa and apeiro did such a great job, huge thanks goes out to both of them. By the way, hwdetect and network-profiles are there as well and work perfectly. 3) Welcome aboard benoitc! He was of great help setting up CVS on the new server, reporting bugs and making suggestions. Also he has been working on G4 specific issues with Firefox and Gnome. Having said that, he plans to contribute the wonderful GNOME which hopefully will attract more people to run Arch on PPC. Let's all cheer for him. ;) 4) What's next? Now that we have all services migrated to the new server, I hope we can catch up with the regular tasks and upgrade to the latest packages in order not to fall behind i686 too much. Right now Xorg 6.9RC3 and firefox 1.5 are in the making and will arrive on the repos shortly. On top of that, I have received word from cnuke today, that there finally is the much anticipated opensource driver for the Airport Xtreme (TM) widely used in iBooks and PowerBooks. I will see about how to integrate them, maybe this could be done much better by benoitc or elkrammer since both own *Books? ;) Well, that's all folks. May the force be with you and good luck with whatever you do right now. Best regards, -kth5

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