Powerpc client on x64 server

[Charles Austin]

On Jan 8, 2008 8:40 AM, Carl Olof Englund <realdiskdoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> An old iMac appeared and practically begged me to add it as a client to
> our
> wonderful Edubuntu network.
>
> The question is how. ltsp-build-client on the server doesn't seem to want
> to
> create a powerpc boot enviroment for the iMac. Shouldn't it be possible
> for
> gcc to compile powerpc-stuff on any architecture?
>
What happens when you do:
sudo ltsp-build-client --arch=powerpc

>
> What is the best way to do it? I thought of installing Edubuntu server on
> the
> iMac and exporting the client directory from there..but since the iMac has
> only 160MiB of RAM and the installation requires 320MiB (really?) I'm not
> sure if that would work. What more is - how can the client image be kept
> updated on the server, the same as the i386 and x86 client dirs?
>

If the above command works, you should be able to do the update image
command for that image like this:
sudo ltsp-update-image -a powerpc

Charles
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