Seems the FC-3/ppc test tree got a little review at ppcnerds. Just a few minor/quick comments.
You can extract boot.iso from the CD1 – just loop mount it. Installation is best done via NFS, as the guide tells you to. Otherwise, its a case of paperclip eject and if you don’t have that, you’re kinda not getting anywhere without NFS (or http, or ftp).
If the reviewer did see yum dependency problems, that we didn’t satisfy out of Core, it’d be great if he could file a bug. Also, with regards to nicer, newer kernels with patches that aren’t in mainline, but are benh generated, dwmw2 has been keeping a repository at ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/people/dwmw2/fc3-kernel-ppc/.
That said, I updated the Fedora Core on your Macintosh (Fedora PPC) guide today as well, to include that newer information. Also for fun, for easy drop in to /etc/yum.repos.d/ is fc3ppc.repo which has all the necessary repos you can use (for a nice stable FC-3 system that is). I especially like:
“There are now two Fedora ports for PPC out there: this official FC3 port in test stage and Yellowdog Linux, which is Fedora-based and in sync with Core 2. What’s the difference between the two? What will be the difference? For now all I can see is that, as expected, Yellowdog is fine-tuned on some hardware recognition there where Fedora still fails. But, being the Fedora port in a test stage, there is much room for improvement and soon we could see a stable release that will fix all of the small problem one meets now.
Oh, there’s now Planet Conary, and finally, I think, Specifix Linux might be PPC compliant in due time (sure, Anaconda needs fixing first…). A bootstrap system is in the near future, I’m guessing. Conary ran fine on FC-2/ppc, and it did so in FC-3/ppc as well. You need sqlite3, iirc, I don’t think I used fedora.us packages then though. This was 0.10.6 though – 0.12.4 is out…
