In message <91f88ee20602010544o33b3f528t575de9fe52417350@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chase creek Systemhouse writes: >On 2/1/06, Peter Seebach <seebs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi! I have been told that I must make a very fast PPC system run Linux, as >> soon as possible. >Speed? As in a fast build or "fast/quick" operation? I built my iMac >350MHz system in 3 hours - but once installed it performs quite well. Both. I am to build the system as soon as possible, and it needs to have tolerable performance running a CPU simulator (which I am told is multithreaded). >> With FC5 "development", I got a bootable CD (yay!), then spent a day >> downloading RPMs. At the end of this, I tried to run the install. I >> pointed the installer at the Fedora/ppc64 (I am a ppc64, yes?) directory >Actually, the G5 processor is 128-bits but ... The Linux "G5" can run >the PPC32 branch at the very least -- it probably should run PPC64 but >why choose 64 bits? The G5 will perform under PPC32 quite well for a >production system -- 64 bits (while others may argue otherwise) is >mainly for very high end database applications. At least one person has told me that I must use a PPC64 kernel to boot at all on a G5. I don't know what you mean by asserting that the G5 is 128-bits. The most relevant features (default ALU size and address space) are both 64, which I assume is the distinction made between ppc and ppc64. That said, this is a machine with under 4G of memory (had to compromise somewhere), so I can probably get away with plain-old, if it's supposed to run at all. >> on the machine I did the downloads on, and it said it was fetching >> "Fedora/base/stage2.img". Then it announced that these files did not match >> my boot media. >The Rescue CD is PPC64 -- try starting the installer off that. You can run the installer from the rescue CD? Cool. >> 1. Am I even barking up the right tree? Do quad G5's run Linux? Do they >> run Fedora in particular? Are test/development releases the way to go? >> 2. Assuming it might be productive for me to install a test release, is >> there some obvious pilot error in trying to boot from the boot.iso image >> and load the files from .../development/ppc64? >Don't know per se; why not try the PPC32 Rawhide branch >Historically the PPC64 is for the PPC9xx series of (AIX-related) >PowerPC processors (but I could be wrong about that so YMMV.) Well, yes. And the G5 is a PPC970; in this case, a pair of PPC970FX. >Personally, I would try the FC5T2 PPC32 branch before surrendering. I will try just about anything, but I was hoping that someone had actually run one of these and could confirm that it would run; downloads are running about a day per ISO set, and I was supposed to be running this on Monday at the latest, or ideally about three days before they told me about the project. -s -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list