On 5/28/23 3:36 PM, Linux User #330250 wrote:
> One more (quite long) follow-up: (sorry for the length!)
>
> On 05/27 2023 20:05, Stan Johnson wrote:
>> The partition should be Apple_Bootstrap, type Apple_Bootstrap. That way
>> it's HFS but not normally accessed via Mac OS X.
>
> In my experience
Hello Karl!
On Mon, 2023-05-29 at 18:32 +0200, Karl wrote:
> I would second that also. Unfortunately, PowerPC support is dwindling
> from year to year. There are only a handful of distributions left that
> support big-endian. I’m using ppc64le myself.
IBM is actually still maintaining support for
On Mon, 2023-05-29 at 18:00 +0200, Linux User #330250 wrote:
> I would like to second that: Adrian, thanks for the hard work to keep
> Debian powerpc alive!
>
> I also don't turn my PowerMacs on that often these days. Non-the-less,
> and even more so when I do, Adrian, your work is very much appre
Hi Johannes!
On Mon, 2023-05-29 at 17:49 +0200, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
> just wanted to thank you for your ongoing perservering and
> knowledgeable effort to keep supporting PowerPCs!
>
> I think you're on the right track! Even though I don't find time to
> boot my PowerPCs often these days,
I would second that also. Unfortunately, PowerPC support is dwindling from year
to year. There are only a handful of distributions left that support
big-endian. I’m using ppc64le myself.
Thank you!
> Am 29.05.2023 um 18:00 schrieb Linux User #330250 :
>
> On 05/29 2023 17:49 Johannes Brakensie
On 05/29 2023 17:49 Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
Hi Adrian,
just wanted to thank you for your ongoing perservering and
knowledgeable effort to keep supporting PowerPCs!
I think you're on the right track! Even though I don't find time to
boot my PowerPCs often these days, each time I do I'm happy
Hi Adrian,
just wanted to thank you for your ongoing perservering and
knowledgeable effort to keep supporting PowerPCs!
I think you're on the right track! Even though I don't find time to
boot my PowerPCs often these days, each time I do I'm happy they `apt
upgrade` and still work.
So your work
On 05/29 2023 16:56 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
hfsutils works like mtools, it doesn't use the kernel's VFS layer. Tools like
"fsck"
and "mkfs" are still on the TODO list as you can see in the TODO file [2] ...
Thanks, I missed this important detail. hformat is just a stub, it
doesn't rea
> On May 29, 2023, at 4:34 PM, Linux User #330250
> wrote:
>
> On 05/29 2023 13:52 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
> BTW, a workaround similar to the one yaboot may use would be to only
> have an image of an empty HFS volume (of fixed size) as a package, and
> use the free (now unmaintai
On 05/29 2023 13:52 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
For one, Gentoo is not Debian. And secondly, you cannot just look at the
upstream sources since there are also many downstream changes in the Debian
package in the form of patches to fix compatibility issues, CVEs and so on.
Makes sense, but
On Mon, 2023-05-29 at 13:40 +0200, Linux User #330250 wrote:
> On 05/29 2023 07:59 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > You're underestimating the number of times the GRUB package gets updated,
> > that happens a lot [1] which is why I don't think your suggestion to use a
> > static GRUB image is e
On 05/29 2023 07:59 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
You're underestimating the number of times the GRUB package gets updated,
that happens a lot [1] which is why I don't think your suggestion to use a
static GRUB image is ever going to fly.
I don't see that many GRUB version updates on Gentoo
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