[solved] iBook 300 MHz PPC and archlinux

Hello everybody,
I just want to ask if archlinuxppc works with this IBook (300 MHz, maybe 366 and in best case 400 MHz). I'm using archlinux since about 3 years on my desktop (x64) and in the past on my old notebook (Intel 2,6 GHz 512 MB Ram) ... currently I'm trying to buy this ibook and I want to install archlinux too (since I've heard from archlinuxppc). I just want to work with it (writing, Internet, a little bit music and, if possible, watching simple movies). As I've heard, you can't compare a 300 ppc with an 300 MHz Intel computer. It seems as if a ppc is a little bit faster than an intel, isn't ist? I've worked successfully with archlinux an an 1 GHz Notebook and it worked fine. So the simple question is, how does archlinux will work in this item?
regards
kruemeltee
Last edited by kruemeltee (2009-02-26 05:54:40)

I've just bought this ibook clamshell and so I'm currently trying to install archlinuxppc on this item. But there were some problems, some of them I've already fixed, but now I'm not getting forward.
First of all was a mechanic problem, disassembling the ibook for installing a new hard disk. So the current configuration of this item is:
300 MHz ppc processor
currently 170 MB RAM (I already ordered 512 MB Ram, so I'll get 544 MB Ram on this item very soon)
40 GB harddisk
the first step was to download a working archlinuxppc ISO. I've got the "wrong" one, just about 30 MB for installing via ftp (2008 core dump ftp iso). But I successfully installed archlinux on an intel machine via ftp so I thought, this will be nearly the same.
Configuring the harddisk was not as easy as usual. I've always used cfdisk for preparing the harddisk, but this doesn't work in this case, so I had to use another, textbased, program. But I solved this problem after a while.
Setting the mountpoints was no problem. But there was one thing that I was worried about during the whole installation until this step. An error message appeared every 5 minutes, saying:
INIT: Id "c0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
The next step was to select the packages. At this point I recognized that I've downloaded the wrong iso image for the first time. After chosing "CD" as source for the packages setup mounted the cd from /dev/hdc in /src but was not able to find the needed packages. So I started the setup again with the help of ftp installation.
When I got to the point of selecting packages there where 3 Servers available:
ftp://ftp.archlinuxppc.org
ftp://xentac.net
ftp://ftp.archlinuxfr.org
by chosing the first ftp I was able to download the package list. Chosing the "base" package list and all of its contents I got the error
unable to download pacman
so I returned back to the ftp choice and tried the 2nd and 3rd ftp. But the setup was not able to download the package list from these servers.
Error fetching package list from server
(I checked the network connection and it worked)
I've decided to get the complete core Image with the packages inside (instead of using the network installation). As I've seen there was a new version from 2009 so I downloaded this one.
Everything works fine until I got to the packages choice. setup was not able to find the /src/core/pkg directory. I've checked the cd (after mounting manually on the ibook and now on a second machine), there is no directory called "core" neither a subdirectory called "pkg".
I was a little bit confused so I've downloaded all pacakages manually on my Desktop and copied them to an usb-stick into a directory called "core/pkg"
After chosing "SRC manually mounted" instead of cdrom setup was able to find the packages.txt (list of contents) so I checked the whole "base" list. Now setup was able to unpack the pacman-package ... but there appears the next error message:
Installing packages...
/arch/setup: line 955: pacman.static: command not found
Package Installation FAILED.
so ... what now? currently I got 2 questions.
the first one: how am I solving the last error to be able to install the packages?
the second one: is my processor an 686er? I don't know if this description is the same like the intel processor description? Is this at ppc processors the same?
with best regards
Martin Schuchardt
Last edited by kruemeltee (2009-02-20 11:55:53)

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