On 06/28/2018 10:35 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > It is perfectly possible to install the last supported 64-bit release and > then dist-upgrade to sid and everything seems to run just fine. I am having > no troubles ( nothing fascinating other than some datatype weirdness ) on a > PowerMac G5 :
There was never an officially supported 64-bit PowerPC release for big-endian, just little-endian (ppc64el). > nix$ uname -a > Linux nix 4.17.2-genunix #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 23:42:51 GMT 2018 ppc64 GNU/Linux > nix$ This is just the kernel. Your userland is still 32-bit, I assume: dpkg --print-architecture > However I really should yank the disks out and try the latest installer > with grub2. Just for testing. Have fun! -- .''`. 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
