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PowerPup · Joined: 17 Mar 2009 Posts: 65 Location: Washington, USA.

Well, after some help with the ldd command. I was able to determine that it WAS missing lib file causing disktype and guess_fstype and others not to work. So now I'm going to have to find out how to build them, I think the term is Static. Like using dietlibc to compile them so they don't need the lib files. or just include them in the initrd. I could do the latter just to get the beta working for now.

So busybox and the kernel are okay, at least for now. Razz

I think I'll try to upload a working beta up for other to see the progress.
It won't include the mac SFS file because I haven't made it yet. But if they know enough linux sh/bash commands and such they can at least mount the cdrom or hard disk and explore them through the command line. Smile

Oh yeah, any information on how to compile programs statically would help. Because at the moment I don't know how to do that. Razz

-PowerPup

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

perhaps you need to have a look at the construct of yellow dog?

http://us.fixstars.com/products/ydl/

It's a dvd I believe, as it has loads of software, but I've read that Terrasoft were brought in as they had succeeded in porting to PS3, involving a live video accelerator, & which is still being developed....

I, too, have a couple of G3s and a fair few friends with MACs who'd love PPCPUP Very Happy

Good luck

Aitch Smile

Lobster · Posted: Sun 29 Mar 2009, 21:50 Post subject:

PowerPup · Joined: 17 Mar 2009 Posts: 65 Location: Washington, USA.

Well, I've got some of the program to compile with dietlibc. Need to work on getting the others to compile statically. Meaning that are independent of any library files.

Thought I'd now share what I currently have so far. Very Happy

[url=http://cid-a22b24d68a96e392.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/PowerPupISOs/PowerPup|_beta.iso]PowerPup_beta.iso[/url]
I recommend using a CD-RW so you don't waste a good CD-R. Razz

Wow Lobster, that's so cool! Very Happy

About maybe being added to the Puppy 5 Kennels. While I am trying to keep as close as possible to the original Puppy coding as possible, I'm probably going to have to go back and clean it up after I get it working.

brymway · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 410

I downloaded the iso and burned it. I booted my emac up with it by pressing 'c' during the boot up and got to boot prompt. I pressed enter and it started booting the kernel, went thru a few screens and then went black. I booted again, pressed 'tab', found out the commands and typed failsafe and it booted into the command line perfectly. (I have to admit my heart was racing at the anticipation, this is gonna be huge if you pull it off) I moved and poked around for a while, even made three directories and moved a file between them. The 'cp' command wasn't found though? I saw it in /bin but it didn't work. Anyway, rock and roll! What's next? I gotta new stack of cd's just for testing this if you want subjects PowerPup. Great work!

As to compiling statically, can't you copy some programs off of Puppy 3 and throw them in? I have been playing around with minor, easy compiling for my own usage. I can just as easy go and build a Puppy 3 system on a partition and download the devx file and play with a few small programs. Am I understanding you correctly?

PowerPup · Joined: 17 Mar 2009 Posts: 65 Location: Washington, USA.

Glad to hear of your success brymway! Very Happy

I'm not sure why you had to go through failsafe to get it working though. Looking at apple-history.com Your Emac uses a Nvidia GeForce2 MX chip. and the only macs I have to test with use ATI. So maybe there's something in the kernel for that. (I know I enabled Nvidia.)

As for getting programs off of Puppy 3, I can't do it that easily. The all the programs are compiled for intel cpus. I have to recompile everything from source to PPC. Don't know why the cp wasn't working for you, tested that myself earlier... Maybe I forgot something. Razz

The next thing is getting the guess_fstype and the probepart_init script working properly. This script is for finding out which drives have partitions that it can look for puppy files on.

If you have other kinds of macs it would help to test them too. That way we have a good idea of compatibility. I don't think you would want to use a bunch of your CDs on the semi-working beta though. Wink

brymway · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 410

I can go pick up a RW cd to try. Just to confirm, I tried running "linux" at the boot again and it crashed. Then I rebooted and ran "linux-failsafe" and it booted into the command line.

As far as compiling to ppc, are you downloading a devx file to your mac and compiling that way?

I downloaded MP editor tar package. It works on 301 with no dependencies. And it doesn't need an x server.

I only have one mac but my sister in law has an imac and a ppc laptop. I'm pretty sure I could use those every once in a while.

Lobster · Posted: Mon 30 Mar 2009, 18:55 Post subject:

brymway · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 410

I have a domain with a dormant forum on it. I have 250 megs of space that I pay for each month. I'd be glad to have it used by Powerpup. I don't know how to do anything with my web space. The company installed the forum software for me and I maintained it. But now it just sits there. Anything I can do I will.

PowerPup · Joined: 17 Mar 2009 Posts: 65 Location: Washington, USA.

Hope I don't disappoint you brymway, I had been planning to make a PowerPup home page (Using free hosts) and have it set up now.
http://powerpup.yi.org/
I plan to work on the PowerPup home page more.

As for a logo I know someone who might be willing to make one for me. Very Happy

Now when you say "share resources" Lobster, do you mean like source codes and such? Because everything I'm using comes from either slackware/slackintosh, puppy sources, or from the author's website.

anyway, fix the cp command and still working on the init scripts, I'll post when I've updated the online iso.

-PowerPup.

brymway · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 410

PowerPup · Joined: 17 Mar 2009 Posts: 65 Location: Washington, USA.

Cool.

Anyway, after using bootinit.log to help debug. (Gotta love them log files. Razz

) I have finally gotten PowerPup to detect the pup_301.sfs file on the CD and Hard Disk! Very Happy

I even used my ext3 partition with a ubuntu sfs file renamed to pup_301.sfs and ran PowerPup. It copied the whole 640MB file into ram and booted it. Although X11 didn't work because it was missing stuff from the ubuntu initrd. This mean I have pretty much three thing left to do, as far as I know.

Create the PPC pup_301.sfs file.
Get the initscripts to properly mount hfsplus to save and load pup_saves.
trim the kernel and initrd.

Updated the home page, and added link to new PowerPup_beta.iso there and previous post above. (This is why I recommend using a CD-RW, because I'm am constantly at work updating it. Smile

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ecomoney · Posted: Wed 01 Apr 2009, 01:42 Post subject:

Good luck with this project PowerPup. Old macs are a major blindspot when it comes to recycling software, but they are very sought after items for their "cool" factor. The only really viable alternative was xubuntu for ppc, which isnt very well maintained and tricky to install.

you may want to think about compiling gnash for this too, as currently I believe there is no flash plugin produced by adobe for linux on ppc.

brymway · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 410

Powerpup iso.2

emac=boots to menu, crashes with "linux" command, runs with "linux-failsafe"
made three directories again and moved them all around. Cp still doesn't work. When the cp command is given, the response is the file specified is "omitted", but it isn't, and the file isn't moved to the target directory. Rm and rmdir work.

ibook G4=boots to menu, works fine with "linux" command. Everything else is the same as above.

Any more extensive tests you would like me to try?

Lobster · Posted: Wed 01 Apr 2009, 22:21 Post subject: