LFS on PPC

[Kernel_Killer]

Well, I've been working on YDL 2.3, but I'm not sure it's all I've really wanted out of my Mac. I was told that some people (Gorn especially) have setup LFS on a PPC machine. If so, what is different from installing on a x86 machine besides packages?

[Stix]

Hey KK,
As you know i'm not really a Mac guy but if you're looking to do a source based distro on it maybe check out Gentoo. I've heard alot of positive results from people on their forum. They also have PPC documentation.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/gentoo-ppc-install.html

I've only done LFS on x86 and don't how it works on a mac.

Later,
Stix

[Ashcrow]

The only diffrence that sticks out is the compiler optimization you use ... everything else is traight by the book.

[kornp]

For more info check out the LFS irc at irc.linuxfromscratch.org channel #LFS, it was very helpful when I was asking around about LFS on sparc.

[gorn]

i think lfs has a ppc howto now, when i did it i didn't see one.

a lot is the same, boot loader isn't, some programs won't compile, i had already done it on i386 so i knew how to guess. if lfs on ppc is your first it will be a little more difficult but still doable.

do you know how yaboot/ybin work? as in able to fix them when they go wrong? i used debian when i did use a distro, and it never got yaboot/ybin working so i had to set it up myself. which at the time sucked cause debian should have done it, but for lfs helped cause i knew how to do it.