[H-GEN] Fedora Core 5 for PPC needed for the distro server.

[David Seikel]

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:23:14 +1000 "Tony Nugent"
<tony at linuxworks.com.au> wrote:

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> > From: general-bounces at lists.humbug.org.au On Behalf Of Anthony Irwin
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 4:58 PM
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> > Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Fedora Core 5 for PPC needed for the distro
> > server.
> >
> >> Tony Nugent wrote:
> >>
> >>> Speaking of Fedora Core 5...
> >>>
> >>> I have it on a DVD that came with the June issue of Linux
> >>> Magazine, but I haven't tried it as yet.  I'll planning to have a
> >>> first look at it in a Vmware box when I finally get some time.
> >>> If it looks good then I'm thinking about updating two or three
> >>> other boxes that I have here.
> >>>
> >>> What are other people's impressions of it?  Is it worth the
> >>> trouble?
> 
> [ ...to answer my own question... ]
> 
> If anyone else is planning to use FC5 as a VMware guest OS, then I
> would highly advise looking through the vmware support pages and
> mailing lists before starting out (hint: search in the KB for "fedora
> core 5 install" and go from there).

What I intend to do with the PPC FC5 is to install it under QEMU on my
Athlon.  It will be interesting to compare results with yours once I
have it installed.  QEMU doesn't have guest OS kernel modules, and the
host OS kernel module is only useful if you are not emulating a
different type of CPU.  This means there will be less things to do to
get it to work. but it will either be GO/NO GO.  So, easier to install
either way.  B-)
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