On 05/27/2013 07:57 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > As the ppc-bios is in .deb format, and my server > runs .yum it was suggested that the binary of ppc-bios could be > extracted from a debian based system and inserted into a yum based > system.
(1) On a local Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Debian machine, do wget -c http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openbios-ppc/openbios-ppc_1.0+svn1060-1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i openbios-ppc_1.0+svn1060-1_all.deb and then copy the file /usr/share/openbios/openbios-ppc (use scp, or filezilla, or whatever you prefer!) up to the big server in the sky :) (2) Alternatively, you could grab the .deb onto the CentOS machine and extract it there, doing something like ar x openbios-ppc_1.0+svn1060-1_all.deb tar zxf data.tar.gz The BIOS is now at usr/share/openbios/openbios-ppc (note: this path is local to where you typed the commands, *not* /usr/...) so you can copy it from there to whereever you think it needs to be :) > If this is possible, It is, I just did it on an RH server from work as a test :) > ... then the issue of the existing processors being slow to compile > on in emulation should not be a major issue. (The dedi server [1] > does have a reasonable amount of CPU's behind it). Well, maybe. Emulation can slow things by very large factors (like 10x or 20x). And compiling a complex browser like Firefox takes a long time (hours) on real (non-emulated) hardware... I know xombrero is smaller and lighter, but... we'll have to see. Anyway, the above two approaches should get you the PPC BIOS on a RedHat/CentOS server, pick whichever method you prefer :) > But, as I said on there, this stuff is beyond my limited capabilities. You're a trained RHCE... you can do this :) Meanwhile, I'll dig out my recalcitrant borrowed iBook G4, and see what I can get it to do for me. I've just never solved or even fully understood the (nVidia) video issues it has. But I can probably install Raring server well enough to ssh into it, which should be fine for using it as a PPC build machine for xombrero. Once I have that... where exactly *is* the xombrero source package we want to build? Jonathan -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
