Fedora PPC

Well, I’ve had my powerbook for almost a year now and although OSX is nice enough, at times I try to compile applications (as in download source, ./configure, make, make install) and it just will not compile.
Figured I’d try Fedora PPC (core 3) and although it’s not fully ready guessed I could live with a few minor bugs here and there… well, I was wrong.

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Firewire drive enclosure issues

It seems not all firewire drive enclosures are equal. Those with an Oxford 911 chipset apparently work properly with OSX and you can boot off them. The one I got today from Maplin was unfortunately not an Oxford chipset but a Prolific PL3507. It works ok in so far as it mounts the disk in OSX but trying to boot from it doesn’t work – it just hangs and doesn’t find it. Time to find a different one.

Annoyances

I’ve been meaning to write this entry for a while but never quite got around to it. It’s probably not all that interesting, but I really want to write it because then maybe when one of these things happens, I’ll stop thinking “Must complain about that (to no-one in particular)”

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User Mode Linux

I’ve just spent the best part of 9 hours installing a Fedora Core 3 User Mode Linux (UML) filesystem and configuring it so that it works. It’s been a learning experience for sure, but once I’ve backed up the virtual disks, I can play around with various things like apache2/mod_perl2 without breaking any existing servers and if it all goes horribly wrong, I can just restore the disk back to how it was.

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