Hi Stan! On 02/20/2016 11:30 PM, Mac User wrote: > If there's an effort to build packages for etch or later
According to the current statistics, 90% of the packages that were ever built on m68k are currently up-to-date: > https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph2-ports-big.png So, I wouldn't call it an effort anymore, we're much more progressed. > I'd like to help That's great to hear. New contributors are always welcome. > though I currently don't know much about how to build Debian > packages. You don't have to worry about that. The packages are built automatically by dedicated machines called buildds. I don't think anyone would want to build over 11000 source packages manually :). > And I don't have a cross compiler for mac68k, only the IIfx > and LC III systems. Packages are built natively anyway, that is either on Aranym or using qemu-m68k, both being emulators. If you follow this guide, you should be able to get a working qemu-m68k chroot which will allow you to build Debian packages for m68k: > https://wiki.debian.org/M68k/sbuildQEMU In order to install a current release of Debian onto your m68k Mac, you currently have to use a tool called debootstrap. Or you just extract a basesystem that I created last year onto your Mac's harddrive: > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/chroots/ To do that, you should remove the drive from the Mac and hook it up to a PC. Then you just format the root partition which currently has Debian Sarge on it (backup your data first) and then just extract the tarball directly onto this partition. Then just add the kernel and the initrd to your Mac Linux loader and you're set. There will be regular Debian m68k installer images in the future, so installation will be easy again. But I haven't yet found the time to work on that, but it is coming. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
