Powerpc client on x64 server

Daniel J. Summers daniel at djs-consulting.com
Wed Jan 9 02:11:54 GMT 2008


Carl Olof Englund wrote:
> 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 don't have a Mac, and don't plan to get one anytime soon, so I 
couldn't maintain it.  However, if the image isn't too big, I'd be happy 
to host it.

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