Installing on a G5
by Tres Finocchiaro
Hi,
I got a hand-me-down PPC machine and was hoping to use it for a bug report
here https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/4784.
I started to install Adelie PPC64, but it seems the OS has a strict
internet connectivity requirement, which I can not seem to get past.
The machine is a Power Mac G5, the big cheese-grater model. The network
connections are as follows:
- Dual, onboard ethernet
- Panda USB wifi adapter
All three adapters show up in the OS, none seem to be usable. The wiki …
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configuring DHCP doesn't seem to apply to the live CD (and I can't find the
password anyway) but happy to go down that route if needed.
I thought perhaps it was a simple DHCP bug so I tried static, but then I
got some access denied errors.
Here's the same issue, described on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AdelieLinux/comments/l8vfxg/no_network_g5/?utm_s...
I was hoping to reproduce the aforementioned bug report with this hardware,
but I'm happy to reproduce it with another OS or hardware if such a
combination exists.
- Tres.Finocchiaro(a)gmail.com
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