[juneau-lug] Re: Linux for PPC

  • From: James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:20:00 -0900

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:27:49 -0900
Justin Burket <zorton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hcopy and hmount are very picky about their syntax and will often times 
> not copy from a full path.  So you typically have to use hcopy ./file 
> :folder:on_mac_drive:  This might not be the case with a newer copy of 
> hutils but keep it in mind.

At least the version of hmount, hcopy, etc. in Debian testing will complain 
vociferously if you don't provide an unambiguous path.  I've found that using 
an absolute path every time is best.

Don't think it would be any different with an rpm distro like YellowDog.

You'll find that there are some strangeness with packages that are "available" 
for PPC (meaning they compile), but that don't work exactly right.  afio comes 
to mind, for versions 2.4 and lower.  So be sure to test things before you use 
them.

Also keep in mind that YellowDog's end-of-life for 3.0 is April 16th.  I don't 
know for sure what that means as far as security updates are concerned, but I 
can't see any security updates for 2.3 past June 2003.  So you *may* be looking 
at an upgrade later this summer.

Cheers,

James

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