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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Slackware64-Current

« on: June 25, 2020, 01:24:09 am »

I actually just got a VPS that I was working on.

I moved my blog site I made to it, though there's not much on it at the moment.
Was working on getting Mirror Brain configured to upload the packages to.

Once I get it setup the blog site will be at https://www.riscyslack.org and mirror will be https://mirror.riscyslack.org
That's the plan at least.

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Legacy POWER Hardware / Re: Old stuff survey

« on: June 25, 2020, 12:33:30 am »

I got a couple Aerohive BR-100 and 4 AP-230.
I'm not sure the specific SoC they run.

I just remember when I first set them up at a previous employer they were running PowerPC and a custom Linux distro.

When they replaced the system I asked the IT manager there if I could take a few to play with instead of them getting trashed.

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Legacy POWER Hardware / Re: Old stuff survey

« on: June 24, 2020, 11:40:50 pm »

I have a few old PowerMacs:

iBook G3
G4 Cube
iMac G4
2 iBook G4s
PowerMac G5

Plus a couple non-Apple PowerPC systems.
IBM Intellistation 185
several Aerohive access points running embedded PowerPC SoC

and of course my newest toy, Blackbird with 8-core Power9.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Slackware64-Current

« on: June 23, 2020, 01:55:05 pm »

I got my Blackbird about a month ago and began working on the build.

I posted a couple updates on the Linuxquestions thread where people asked about a Power9 port.

I might try talking to Patrick Volkerding about mirroring them.
Once I get something that can actually install.

Right now I have a script that does a for loop through the directories and installs them in a folder for testing.
I extracted the Debian Grub packages and manually installed them on my Blackbird and it looks like it picks up the Slackware install just from running a grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
So I should be able to get that going enough to make a Slackware installer initrd.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Slackware64-Current

« on: June 23, 2020, 11:06:50 am »

If it's visible to GRUB, it should be visible to Petitboot.

Thank you, I figured it was something like that.

Grub is one of the packages that keeps erroring on build.
I'll have to work on getting that one working.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Slackware64-Current

« on: June 23, 2020, 10:59:29 am »

I have been working on rebuilding Slackware64 Current on my Blackbird.
Its mostly there now, though a few applications are having some issues that need sorted.
I also need to find a place to host the packages.

I'm trying to sort out the boot requirements for creating an install image.
I understand Petitboot does a scan and is supposed to auto detect OSes.

What specifically is it scanning for?
Is there info somewhere on what needs to be setup for it to detect the installed OS?