Powerpc client on x64 server

[Daniel J. Summers]

(talking to myself here...)

Daniel J. Summers wrote:
> 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.
>   
Could this be obtained from a PowerPC ISO of Edubuntu?  That would be 
the easiest way for it to be maintained - let the project itself do it!  :)


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