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Fedora 26 Server PPC64
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 10:57 am
by xeno74
Hi All,
I created with
dd an img of my fedora 26 Server PPC64 installation today.
Be aware, that fedora is experimental and isn't supported. fedora 26 is alpha software! It's only for testing and tinkering!
Download:
fedora26.img.gz
I suggest to download the fedora 26 img with a right click on the link and then with the menu point "Save target as" or something like that.
Please note: There isn't a graphical login. You have to login via a console (virtual terminal). After that you can start Xorg with
startx.
Users:
root (password "amigaone")
amigaone (password "amigaone")
Further information about fedora 26 Server PPC64:
Fedora 26 Server PPC64 - Platform: AmigaOne X1000 - Linux Only
fedora 26 Server PPC64 on an AmigaOne X5000:
fedora 26 Server PPC64 on an AmigaOne X1000:
BTW, I created a small fedora download webpage today:
http://www.supertuxkart-amiga.de/amiga/fedora.html
Cheers,
Christian
Re: Fedora 26 Server PPC64
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 5:50 pm
by Roland
There is a Fedora 25 -image on that site... Does it work with X5000? How should it be installed and run? Is it a 'full disk' image or an ordinary partition image?
Re: Fedora 26 Server PPC64
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 6:10 pm
by xeno74
Roland wrote:
There is a Fedora 25 -image on that site... Does it work with X5000? How should it be installed and run? Is it a 'full disk' image or an ordinary partition image?
Hi Roland,
It’s a partition image. I don’t know if it works on a X5000.
Further information about Fedora 25
Cheers,
Christian
Re: Fedora 26 Server PPC64
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 6:27 pm
by Roland
I installed and tested it on X5000 with kernel 4.9.60... Loaded very quickly and worked ok for me!-)
It gave the impression of an usable distro, at least compared to Fedora 26 and OpenSuse Tumbleweed which are very slow to load and indeed still 'alfa'. Had you already installed some updates to this Fed25 image? Would it be possible somehow to 'automate' the login and loading of desktop?
One thing which I did not yet find in it: how to choose the keyboard layout?
Re: Fedora 26 Server PPC64
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 9:02 pm
by xeno74
Roland wrote:
Had you already installed some updates to this Fed25 image?
Yes, I successfully installed some updates on Fedora25 last year.
— Christian
Re: Fedora 26 Server PPC64
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 9:29 pm
by xeno74
Roland wrote:Would it be possible somehow to 'automate' the login and loading of desktop?
Please try
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sudo systemctl --force enable lightdm.service
— Christian
Re: Fedora 26 Server PPC64
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 1:54 pm
by acefnq
Christian
I successfully installed on my X5000 and played around a fair bit. Getting used the the package manager is a pain but getting there. There doesn't appear to be such a wide selection of software than available for deb based distros but it seems quite stable.
allan
Re: Fedora 26 Server PPC64
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 2:03 pm
by xeno74
acefnq wrote:Christian
I successfully installed on my X5000 and played around a fair bit. Getting used the the package manager is a pain but getting there. There doesn't appear to be such a wide selection of software than available for deb based distros but it seems quite stable.
allan
Allan,
Fantastic!
Thank you for testing!
Cheers,
Christian
Re: Fedora 26 Server PPC64
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 5:20 pm
by Roland
xeno74 wrote:Roland wrote:Would it be possible somehow to 'automate' the login and loading of desktop?
Please try
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sudo systemctl --force enable lightdm.service
Thanks for the tip... I tested it, and it run without error messages, but did not have any effect. Booting still stops at the login prompt.
I'am not familiar how the final steps of Linux boot work, but would it be possible to simply add to the end of the ""startup-sequence"" (or whatever it is called in Linux!) commands like "wait until the 'login prompt' appears on screen", "input 'amigaone''", "wait until the 'password prompt' appears" "input 'amigaone''", "wait until the 'user@localhost' prompt appears", "input StartX" ?
The exact formulation would be of course different, but you probably get the idea...
With AmigaOs that would be quite simple, if I remember correctly some scripts I have seen earlier.
Re: Fedora 26 Server PPC64
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 7:14 am
by xeno74
Roland,
Please post the output of sudo systemctl get-default. After that try the command sudo systemctl isolate graphical.target. You change to the graphical runlevel with this command. In lightdm you can choose one of some desktops and login. If it works then you can set up it as the default runlevel with sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target. After that please reboot for testing.
Thanks,
Christian