Fedora PPC guide... [Archive]

byte

2004-06-20, 11:58 PM CDT

2004-06-21, 12:35 AM CDT

Thanks Colin, Thread Stuck.

Janus

2005-01-26, 04:24 AM CST

What about us poor IBM Powered fellas? No Mac around here just Power3-64's...all my x86's have Fedora and I'd love to get rid of that AIX dino-OS. :D

LaKing

2005-03-15, 02:55 AM CST

you will need an installed linux, possibly an FC3 on a PC and a CDrom or DVDrom ...

Here the complete HOWTO install FC3 on the G4:

- to the primary HDD install OSX, leave free space for FC3
- get the CDs of FC3 ppc install and burn them (diesks: boot, 1,2,3,4)
- build your other drive in temporary. Unplug the built in CDrom (you dont need that if you can access your built in CDrom eject button)
- insert boot disk
- restart, hold C to boot from CD.

INSTALL FIRST TIME
- install graphical
@ disk partitioning
-- manually partition
-- create apple boot strap .. 1 MB
-- create Swap ... 1024 MB
-- create ext3 .. / .. fill all space up
(dont delete other partitions, OsX lives on them)
..
@ Custom setup
-- install minimal with system tools (like mc for example)
-- if you can, use network SMB services (or maybe text based internet)
..
..

After reboot you should have a console.
- Get the Xautoconfig rpm and install it and run it. This will create a nice and working Xorg conf file.
- save that conf file somehow. (SMB, upload, or put your HDD to the 2nd linux mashine)

REINSTALL FULL
- install graphical
@ disk partitioning
-- manually partition

-- delete all non OsX partitions (apple boot,swap,ext3) .. (if you skip that you wont have yaboot conf)
(dont delete other partitions, OsX lives on them)

-- create apple boot strap .. 1 MB
-- create Swap ... 1024 MB
-- create ext3 .. / .. fill all space up
..
@ Custom setup
-- install as you wish, with X, Gnome ... KDE, ...
..

After reboot, Mac will hang at boot.

- Take out your HDD from the Mac and build it in to your other Linux Machine.
- after boot mount the drive temporarly (take a look at hardware, then just a command like: mount /dev/hdd )

- copy the file created by Xautoconfig and replace it with the original /etc/X11/xorg.conf

- put the HDD back to the Mac.

FC3 is UP

- edit /etc/yaboot.conf
-- add: macosx=/dev/hda9 (look wich partition your OsX is, use parted)
-- add: enablecdboot

- edit /etc/yum.conf
-- add repository mirrors wich are close. ( possibly make one on LAN, mount as an SMB drive and acess it local)

- run: yum update

... voila .. there is the FC3 on the Mac

LaKing

2005-03-19, 04:47 AM CST

Ooops, problem.

The Mac still hangs at 2 of 5 boots at searching for new hardware, i guess its becose the soundcard still not detected properly. (and i modified /etc/modprobe.conf)

After 20 boots and 8 resets it looked like the HDD had inconsistency.
... dropped me to shell
... sad i should press "W" for rewrite partition table.
... Now whole disk is empty

Conclusion
USE SEPARATE HDD FOR LINUX

salpula

2005-03-19, 12:54 PM CST

you will need an installed linux, possibly an FC3 on a PC

- Take out your HDD from the Mac and build it in to your other Linux Machine.
- after boot mount the drive temporarly (take a look at hardware, then just a command like: mount /dev/hdd )

I used a PPC live CD, gentoo has one, ubuntu has one. Its MUCH easier than removing the drive (especially if you have a laptop! ;)

hackerotaku

2005-06-25, 10:24 PM CDT

anyone have problems with cpu fan on the G4. G5, or macmini throttling to ungodly speeds
at one point it sounded like my G4 PowerBook was going to take off
the cpufan over a period of 10 minutes revved up to jet engine speeds
and the laptop got so hot I thought it was going to catch on fire
and this was with FC4
also tried
FC5 in the development branch with hopes there might be some patch in the kernel

haalaaluu

2005-07-26, 06:52 AM CDT

nokollonzo

2005-08-22, 02:04 PM CDT

Just wanted to say that there is a Fedora PPC install guide, and if those of you are interested in contributing patches, et al, please do so.

Guide is at: http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.html

We have a mailing list at fedora-ppc@lists.ydl.net

And we hang out on IRC, on the freenode.net network, at #fedora-ppc

Happy PPCing!

Hi guys,
as you can see I'm a new at fedoraforum. I just want to say that (as you can see in the quote) I've just installed Fedora on my iBook G4 with great success, but after big troubles. The guide posted above is one of the 4 or 5 that I've been using during the installation. They're all good how-tos, but finally I decided to create another guide more specific for Fedora+iBook, a little bit longer and detailed. Unfortunately it is only in Italianat he moment (yes, I'm from Turin - 2006 Winter Olympics city) but an English versionis coming soon.
Hope this stuff can be usefull! :rolleyes:
My guide is at: www.labinf.polito.it/nepote/linux_on_ibook_g4.html (http://www.labinf.polito.it/nokonline/nokudoku/linux_on_ibook_g4.php)

NokO

haalaaluu

2005-08-22, 02:20 PM CDT

Unfortunately it is only in Italianat he moment (yes, I'm from Turin - 2006 Winter Olympics city) but an English versionis coming soon.
www.labinf.polito.it/nepote/linux_on_ibook_g4.html
NokO

dont worry NoKO,

Check this (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.labinf.polito.it/nepote/linux_on_ibook_g4.html) i translated for you! :D j/k just focus to write on standard DTD and formatted charset but you just check why a few last portion of your page did not translate. Google can translate many other language too!! anyway, great tutorial!! keep writing.. :)

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=your link, for your case
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.labinf.polito.it/nepote/linux_on_ibook_g4.html

nokollonzo

2005-08-22, 02:34 PM CDT

ARGH! thank you for the tip, but what a mess! Let's say it's a good starting point. I'd better ask my collegue Ronald from Ontario to translate it (as I was going to do).
Thanks again haalaaluu
:)

NoKo

BlastXng

2006-05-14, 09:15 PM CDT

I have a stock Cube with 450 PPC G4 in it and have tried all sorts of video options with no luck... Even Text mode doesn't work. :mad:

Has anyone had any luck getting FC5 to load on a Cube? :eek:

dixiechicken

2006-05-15, 04:11 PM CDT

Has anyone installed FC-5 on a dualcore G5 PPC 2.0 Ghz?

Cheers: Dixiechicken

machead

2006-06-22, 07:45 AM CDT

I've had FC5 on that exact same Cube BUT not with an ADC monitor. It would only work with my Sony 17" 200sf.

BlastXng

2006-06-22, 08:37 AM CDT

I've had FC5 on that exact same Cube BUT not with an ADC monitor. It would only work with my Sony 17" 200sf.

Ok excellent..

Anything special that you did?

I have a ADC monitor so this might be causing the problem.

Ubuntu & Kubuntu 5.10 Breezy work fine without any issues. :)

machead

2006-06-22, 08:48 AM CDT

No, nothing special, it just refused to behave with the ADC monitor but smoothe as silk with the Sony....insert disks and go!

BlastXng

2006-06-22, 09:01 AM CDT

No, nothing special, it just refused to behave with the ADC monitor but smoothe as silk with the Sony....insert disks and go!

Okay..

Were you able to go back and use your ADC monitor or did FC5 puke at this? :confused:

machead

2006-06-22, 09:09 AM CDT

I didn't try but if you have another monitor for the install, it would be worth having a go. I've since sold the Cube so I can't experiment.

jeancasteres

2006-09-24, 07:19 AM CDT

Hello,

I am a newbie on this forum, and I am trying to install fedora on a PowerBook G4.
But the first step which is to burn the bootable iso is not working for me.
Please, if this is not the correct thread to ask this question feel free to route
me to the appropriate forum.

Thank you for your advices.

Sincerely,

Jcast

---
Technical details

I downloaded the CDs from the site and the sha1sum program from:
ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/core/5/ppc/iso/

I checked my download was OK:
sha1sum -c SHA1SUM.txt
FC-5-ppc-rescuecd.iso: OK
FC-5-ppc-disc1.iso: OK
FC-5-ppc-disc2.iso: OK
FC-5-ppc-disc3.iso: OK
FC-5-ppc-disc4.iso: OK
FC-5-ppc-disc5.iso: OK

Then I checked my cdrecord program was working fine by burning a copy of my original
MacOSX cd:
disktool -u disk2s2 ; cdrecord dev=IODVDServices driveropts=burnfree -sao speed=4 disk2.cdr
[...]
Track 02: Total bytes read/written: 2960891904/2960891904 (1445748 sectors).

Using system preference the disk shows as bootable, and I also try to boot (holding the 'C' key)
on my PowerBook G4 which worked fine.

I did this to check my process was fine. I also used disk utilities to burn and obtained also
a good bootable image.

Then I burned the disk FC-5-ppc-disc1.iso using the same command. The cdrecord burning
process worked fine but the disk is not bootable. neither does "system preferences" sees it
as bootable.

The process using disk utilities also failed.
So I am questioning whether the image available on the site is really bootable
or I did something wrong...

PowerBook G4
Type de processeur : PowerPC G4 (2.1)
Vitesse du processeur : 667 MHz
Mémoire : 512 Mo
Vitesse du bus : 133 MHz
Version de la ROM de démarrage : 4.2.9f1

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K05 :
Révision du programme interne : 1.03
Interconnexion : ATAPI
Gestion de la gravure : Oui (livraison/gestion par Apple)
Cache : 2000 Ko
Lecture de DVD : Oui
CD gravables : -R, -RW
DVD gravables : -R, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Stratégies d’écriture : CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

polarair

2006-10-12, 02:45 PM CDT

Hello,

I am a newbie on this forum, and I am trying to install fedora on a PowerBook G4.
I have the same problems on my G4 grey box

Mike :mad:

jeancasteres

2006-10-14, 02:02 PM CDT

Hello Mike,

I posted more info on another maillist one level up, Burn PPC5 iso for PowerBook G4 problems.
I did not get successful yet, I am wondering if maybe i should use an older version to test if a
problem was introduced on recent distribs, and then track what maybe the root cause...

Sincerely,

Jean Casteres

GioMBG

2006-10-30, 08:49 PM CST

Hi ALL!
Respect, I post here to be informed when someone post here and or can boot mac Pro intel Core based with the first installation CD of FC6...
Regards
GioMBG

sprocketlogic

2007-01-05, 10:38 AM CST

I just successfully installed Fedora Core 6 on a G4 Cube with an ADC monitor connected. Here is the magic line to use at the "boot:" prompt:

linux video=ofonly resolution=1024x768

jim@nordisk

2007-02-07, 02:20 PM CST

Hey I'm with you brother.

I have a whole ware house full of 43P-140's, 43p-150, a B-50 , four H50's, two F-40's, two F-50' and 4 6F1's. (one of hte 6F1 has 16 gig of ram and 4 way 750 mhz procs, as well as 2 36 Gig drives and 12 73 gig drives that is all mine to play with. God wouldnt hat make a killer Fedora Linux box. Then I have a 620 power4 and Lpar capable and a 52A (two way power5 with two four packs of 146 gig SCSI drives. (That is a test and development, customer support box so I can't mess with that, but with dynamic LPARing I can put a Linux in a LPAR.

maybe can have a IBM PPC thread and leave all the fruit worshipers of Cupertino to have their own place.

ghostdawg

2008-06-27, 01:56 AM CDT

Does this guide still apply with the current Fedora's, 8 & 9? I wouldn't mind installing it on my G4 mini mac. Are there different ways to install on an external hard drive?

Thnx.

jeancasteres

2008-06-28, 10:24 AM CDT

Does this guide still apply with the current Fedora's, 8 & 9? I wouldn't mind installing it on my G4 mini mac. Are there different ways to install on an external hard drive?

Thnx.
I would say no: I did not try it and it is old.

Sincerely,

Jean Casteres

armann

2008-07-07, 12:09 PM CDT

I have a G5 PPC and I'm wondering if something is different from Fedora for I386 then PPC ?

Can I run wine ?

I know this is not the place to ask this but maybe some of you know, does Red Hat Enterprise run on PPC, can't seem to find info on it, maybe that means it's not available ;)