Hi, On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On Nov 20, 2017, at 10:51 PM, Frank Scheiner <frank.schei...@web.de> wrote: > >> Well, to be on the safe side, I think you need to use the latest versions of >> ofpath and ofpathname, hence running Debian Sid could be the easiest way to >> make sure this is the case. > > As both ofpath and ofpathname are shell scripts, would it be possible to just > install Sid on one of the machines and copy the scripts to each of the other > machines? > > Mostly all of these machines are currently running Jessie, and it would be a > lot of work to upgrade each to Sid, run the experiments, then downgrade back > to Jessie. > > Alternatively, could we make a Sid live (or rescue mode installer) CD that I > could boot to run the experiments? > > On a third hand, all of these machines have a Firewire port that they can > boot from. Can I install Sid on a single Firewire external drive and boot > each machine in turn from it… It would have to be two Firewire drives, one > for the G4 machines, and the other for the G5s. Would that work?
One last comment, do not use `ofpathname` from package `powerpc-ibm-utils` since the package has been removed. The issue should be solved within the command lines tools provided by grub-ieee1275.
