Void Linux for PowerPC

[TzunamiOSX]

Has anyone a guide how to create a Void USB Stick and boot from it?

Running out of DVDs 🤪

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

dd if=</path/to/VOID/ISO> of=/dev/sd<USB_Drive> ?
As one of possibilities which jumped in head .

 

[dextructor]

Step by step, please

Has anyone a guide how to create a Void USB Stick and boot from it?

Running out of DVDs 🤪

I'm trying to be as polite as possible, but you don't wanna learn anything. You don't say thank you to almost any post that everyone try to help you, and you above all don't search for your answer. If your questions was about something that it's specific to our PowerPC's linux (that can have it's quirks at it's own) that's ok. But you ask questions that are available with any google search or even in the documentation (the ppc or the x86_64 documentation).

Please if you don't wanna search and take your time to learn, please don't waste the time of the rest of our members

 

[Tratkazir_the_1st]

@dextructor
Much shorter: "LMD. RTFM!"

 

[TzunamiOSX]

I'm trying to be as polite as possible, but you don't wanna learn anything. You don't say thank you to almost any post that everyone try to help you, and you above all don't search for your answer. If your questions was about something that it's specific to our PowerPC's linux (that can have it's quirks at it's own) that's ok. But you ask questions that are available with any google search or even in the documentation (the ppc or the x86_64 documentation).

Please if you don't wanna search and take your time to learn, please don't waste the time of the rest of our members

The documetation is useless in many points, specally for PPC. Most of problems are not documented. Im reading the documetation and forums 5 hours a day to fix stupid problems like an other keyboard setup in the login screen. Many problems are documeted for linux systems with systemd but not for Void.

My last problem is the Time & Date control panel under Mate and it looks like no one has ever see or fix this problem.

Here is a good guide to set up Mate with the non Xfce base image. (partition disk is not for PPC)

This is a guide to install the base system with xorg, lightdm and mate

 

[TzunamiOSX]

dd if=</path/to/VOID/ISO> of=/dev/sd<USB_Drive> ?
As one of possibilities which jumped in head .

the sd show me, this is on linux and not on mac.

This looks like a good help, but it needs a Intel Mac

Installing Linux on PowerPC Macs - Low End Mac

It’s not particularly easy to create a bootable USB flash drive so you can try running Linux on a PowerPC Mac. It took me a couple weeks of research, asking questions of our Linux on PowerPC Macs group on Facebook, and experimenting before I could finally boot into Linux 14.04 from a thumb...

lowendmac.com

 

[dextructor]

The documetation is useless in many points, specally for PPC. Most of problems are not documented. Im reading the documetation and forums 5 hours a day to fix stupid problems like an other keyboard setup in the login screen. Many problems are documeted for linux systems with systemd but not for Void.

The documentation it's far from perfect and isn't also ArchWiki or Gentoo level of thorough and depth (also not perfect). Many Linux distro's use SystemD and if you like, good for you than chose whatever suits you best. But some of us don't like at all and thanks for the devs that don't include it in this specific distro. So you as always will have to search for it, because if you don't: use a common distro that "should have" your problem properly identified, documented and solved.

One thing I must say when you are getting out of the mainstream operating systems and going to the UNIX world when you try to get help the first rule is: RTFM because they assume that you try to understand and exhaust the possibilities.

In the IRC most likely are some neck-beards old school guys that was thought the RTFM since day 1 because they doesn't have google to "help solve their answers" and they wanna to help since you try and not simply wanna have your "problem solved" because you are lazy

the sd show me, this is on linux and not on mac.

This looks like a good help, but it needs a Intel Mac

I have answered that kind of question already in two different times about creating the USB on OSX 10.5 using my PowerBook G4 and my iMac G5, because this specific scenario isn't described in the official documentation. So do us a favor and stop spreading misinformation because it's one thing to have a poor documentation, other it's to have an outdated or poor tested knowledge (many on this thread and forum successfully installed not only Void but other distros using USB and preparing in OSX since that article was written)

 

[Amethyst1]

the sd show me, this is on linux and not on mac.

On OS X, disks are /dev/disk0 and so on. Use sudo diskutil list to find your USB drive (by name or size), unmount it (sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX) and then write the image (sudo dd if=image of=/dev/diskX bs=4096k). I have done it like that several times.

 

[dextructor]

On OS X, disks are /dev/disk0 and so on. Use sudo diskutil list to find your USB drive, unmount it (sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX) and then write the image (sudo dd if=image of=/dev/diskX bs=4096k). I have done it like that several times.

That's what I was trying to say but he it's lazy enough to search for a question answered before and my links point to the same answer that you just wrote.

 

[Amethyst1]

That's what I was trying to say but he it's lazy enough to search for a question answered before

Not worth getting worked up about is it?

 

[TzunamiOSX]

That's what I was trying to say but he it's lazy enough to search for a question answered before and my links point to the same answer that you just wrote.

The problem is that your „guides“ start in the middle of the process. No infos about the format of the usb stick.

I have searched for a good guide or video from plug in the stick, over formating, copy image, to the final usb boot. Not only for me alone (i can search for my own for hours), but other user will be frustrated really fast, or don’t have the time.

I have also make the step by step guide to install Void and use it with the 6800 Ultra to bring down the frustration Level for beginners.

 

[Amethyst1]

No infos about the format of the usb stick.

The format doesn't matter at all because dd'ing the image to the stick is copying block-by-block, mercilessly overwriting anything that might be on it, including the partition table.

 

[TzunamiOSX]

The format doesn't matter at all because dd'ing the image to the stick is copying block-by-block, mercilessly overwriting anything that might be on it, including the partition table.

Also the boot block (Master Boot,...)?

 

[Amethyst1]

Also the boot block (Master Boot,...)?

That's the first thing to get overwritten.

 

[TzunamiOSX]

That's the first thing to get overwritten.

Ok, this was the Info i need, thx.

 

[xeno74]

Void PPC with the new RC6 of kernel 5.15:



Many thanks to the Void developers for this great distribution! Now, I use it on my PC too.

Void PPC works also great as a server:

 

[xeno74]

Desktop firewall for Void PPC Linux:

/etc/rc.local:

# Default rc.local for void; add your custom commands here.
#
# This is run by runit in stage 2 before the services are executed
# (see /etc/runit/2).

iptables -t filter -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -t filter -A OUTPUT -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -t filter -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -P OUTPUT DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP

 

[lepidotós]

I'm trying to get X11 up and going on my iMac G5 (A1058), I know for sure it worked during the live install, but now all of a sudden it really doesn't want anything to do with my computer. MATE just throws out a complete garbled mess, Window Maker doesn't even try before giving up with a 'pixel clock comparison table not found' that also shows up while booting, and I'm not sure what to do. It seems like my xorg.conf is blank and read-only, too.
The things I've already done from my many searches:
Set noaccel to 1;
Ran Xorg -config -- nvidia-xconfig just doesn't exist on my computer (I guess because I'm using nouveau?) and copy the xorg.conf.new file to my /usr/share/X11 folder;
Managed to get it to display twm, so it seems to work slightly, but not enough to be usable.

 

[Lastic]

Still tinkering around with Void on my iBook G4 800 Mhz , 640MB RAM.
A lean machine running

bspwm
sxhkd
conky ( altough I might replace it with bar, polybar, or something else)
st (with scroll also installed)
feh
wpa-supplicant
mplayer
youtube-dl
eolie ,for the bloat
qutebrowser ,for the quick surf
ranger
herbe , very light notification daemon
lite-xl , very nice Sublime alike LUA based editor
wireshark-qt
qemu
gns3

I think it's the most lightweight machine I've run so far , even lighter on resources than Manjaro bspwm on my X220.

Polybar has been tweaked and I re-discovered an applet for pmu_battery

GitHub - gungwald/mac-battery-applet: A battery applet for Linux and Gnome 3 on a PowerPC Mac

A battery applet for Linux and Gnome 3 on a PowerPC Mac - gungwald/mac-battery-applet

github.com

Simple Terminal has been solarized, Vim has a vs-code-dark them by Tomasiser

Lite-XL editor, Ranger as filemanager with the little-endian yellow previews

And GTK-pipeviewer + mpv for Youtube playback

 

[TzunamiOSX]

I'm trying to get X11 up and going on my iMac G5 (A1058), I know for sure it worked during the live install, but now all of a sudden it really doesn't want anything to do with my computer. MATE just throws out a complete garbled mess, Window Maker doesn't even try before giving up with a 'pixel clock comparison table not found' that also shows up while booting, and I'm not sure what to do. It seems like my xorg.conf is blank and read-only, too.
The things I've already done from my many searches:
Set noaccel to 1;
Ran Xorg -config -- nvidia-xconfig just doesn't exist on my computer (I guess because I'm using nouveau?) and copy the xorg.conf.new file to my /usr/share/X11 folder;
Managed to get it to display twm, so it seems to work slightly, but not enough to be usable.

Perhaps this will help (same look on my on my 6800 Ultra and 7800 GS without)

xbps-install nano (if not installed)
sudo mkdir -p /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nouveau.conf

Add this and save it:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "NVIDIA"
    Driver "nouveau"
    Option "ShadowFB" "true"
EndSection

 

[xeno74]

Kerberos authentication with Void PPC:

 

[lepidotós]

Perhaps this will help (same look on my on my 6800 Ultra and 7800 GS without)

Got it working.

 

[wicknix]

Regarding sound, sudo modprobe snd_powermac works,didn't have to unmute even.
I was just wondering if it is the correct module for this iBook, I remember that you had to choose depending wether your machine was a Powerbook or an iBook.

Likewise I'm loading pmu_battery which gives me info under /sys/class/power_supply but how do I load these at boot, I would a config file here but these directories are empty.

[uz3r@snailbook ~]$ ls -lthr /etc/modules-load.d/
total 0
[uz3r@snailbook ~]$ ls -lthr /etc/modprobe.d/
total 0

Create a seperate .conf for each module you want loaded at boot in /etc/modules-load.d/
Example:

sudo touch /etc/modules-load.d/snd-powermac.conf

Open that file in an editor and add this:

# load snd_powermac
snd_powermac

Cheers

 

[wicknix]

I've now dedicated the 17" PB to experimental and tinker purposes. Downloaded the lastest void.iso and here is my set up:
IceWM w/pcmanfm for handling the icons and wallpaper.
Links, Eolie, and Faded Orb for web browsers.
MPV, Pithos, and VLC for audio/video needs.
Gimp and mtpaint for image editing.
Abiword, Gnumeric, and Homebank for basic office stuff.
Gtk pipeviewer and streamlink for youtube / twitch.
...and a few more things for good measure.

Cheers

 

[Lastic]

@wicknix Thanks , I had figured it out in the meantime

In the meanwhile I'm trying to figure out snd_aloop out

Capture playback on play-only sound card with ALSA

My hw:1,0 is a playback-only external USB card. The recording application cannot capture the samples being sent to hw:1,0 if it tries opening hw:1,0 for capture. The alsamixer doesn't give any "[Ca...

stackoverflow.com

in order to use cava

GitHub - karlstav/cava: Cross-platform Audio Visualizer

Cross-platform Audio Visualizer. Contribute to karlstav/cava development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com