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Fabio Riga

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Jan 12, 2012, 2:55:17 PM1/12/12

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Hi all,

thank you for the effort of porting Arch linux to PowerPc. I'm in the way of installing it in a old iMac.

I was unable to install using /arch/setup because the command "pacman -S base" failed. It's due to the fact that both linux-pmac and linux-pmac64 are in the group, so the checking for conflict fail.

I was able to install base system from command line, but this should be corrected anyway. I don't know much about powerpc, but why there are two linux packages, instead of building for two architectures?

I hope this can be useful.

Cheers

Fabio

JJ DaNiMoTh

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Jan 16, 2012, 12:45:55 PM1/16/12

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Il giorno gio, 12/01/2012 alle 20.55 +0100, Fabio Riga ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
>
> thank you for the effort of porting Arch linux to PowerPc. I'm in the
> way of installing it in a old iMac.
> I was unable to install using /arch/setup because the command "pacman
> -S base" failed. It's due to the fact that both linux-pmac and
> linux-pmac64 are in the group, so the checking for conflict fail.

It's resolved now, thanks for your and some other report.

> I was able to install base system from command line, but this should
> be corrected anyway. I don't know much about powerpc, but why there
> are two linux packages, instead of building for two architectures?

We support both powerpc 32 and 64 bit; But don't think that they're the
same of Intel x86 :)

In general, we need only the kernel compiled for 64 bit, other
application could stay 32 bit.