[juneau-lug] PowerPC install (was "December meeting & ...)

  • From: Stephen <sbodnar@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:32:17 -0900

>The Debian PowerPC install went well last night, with only one small 
>hiccup.  Using the floppy images from the Woody CDs, Nels' 
>PowerComputing (?) c180 booted up just fine, but then hung trying to 
>expand the root image from the second floppy.  Booting with a Mac OS 
>8 system disk floppy (from the NetBSD web site) let us upgrade the 
>OpenFirmware.  Try number two with the Debian floppies worked fine, 
>and Nels started dealing with the familiar Debian installer.  From 
>that point on, the only major difference between an i386 install and 
>the PowerPC install was the fdisk version used for Macs, and the 
>fact that the video card was not PCI.  The install finished up just 
>as the library staff started turning off the lights.
>
>During the install Nels and I were talking about home networks 
>getting too big to manage with host files, and how DHCP and Dynamic 
>DNS might be a solution worth looking at. I was going to put 
>together a quick demo & howto on it for January.  (The Tower of 
>Power might make an appearance since it is configured this way 
>already.)
>
>Any other topics people are interested in seeing?
>
>Cheers,
>
>James

Thanks for the update and congratulations on the Tower of Power install.
I'm not really surprised that you had to upgrade the OpenFirmware. There
were actually some updates on Apple's ftp site for that box, mainly to
fix a SCSI timing bug, but I never got around to it (actually was a bit
chicken because it was my main machine at the time).

I'll be waiting to hear how it works as a Dynamic DNS server. I've had
a PC linux box (SuSE) running BIND on my home network for a few years.
BIND is pretty vulnerable though, I'll be trying djbdns (tinydns) on
a network I'm working on for some folks now.

Stephen

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