Powerpc client on x64 server

[Carl Olof Englund]

On Tuesday 08 January 2008, you wrote:
> I can't seem to find the darn wiki doc, but I know it is out there.  You
> need to boot from a PPC machine and build the environment, then move it
> over to the server.  Then you need to customize your dhcpd.conf to boot the
> PPC tree when a mac is detected.  That is about the best description I can
> give you without the docs.
>
> Hope that puts you on the right track,
> Jim

Yes, that's what I meant. I read some hints about people having more or less 
successfully done it this way. But I don't think it's a good solution, a 
better one should be possible.

It would be better if there was some kind of maintained Edubuntu PPC client 
(i.e. on a website) that could be downloaded and installed. If people are 
maintaining a Edubuntu install image for Powerpc, perhaps they could do that 
too?

I'm wondering if the best way technically would be to have some script 
compiling the PPC client enviroment from source on the (amd64 (not x64, lol 
sorry :) a la Gentoo. Once working, it would be way easier than the current 
solution (install ppc server on ppc client, move ppc client enviroment to 
real server, fret over the ppc client enviroment not being updated and 
expanded with programs like the other client enviroments)

/ Carl

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