On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:56:04PM +0200, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm new to the list and new for this of Linux on PPC. I would like to ask one > question because I have found a search in gg but I don't have the solution > very clear. > > I would like to now if is possible to boot in a PowerMac (5400/5500/iMac) in > the same ways as etherboot in i386 so the PPC box would act as X-terminal. newworld machines yes, oldworld, not really. oldworld OF is quite broken and generally doesn't netboot without significant hackery. for newworld see http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/netboot.shtml > Why? > well is simple, you have some old powerPC and want's to use them as X-terminal > against a server (ia32). So, you put the ppc base in some /opt/ltsp/pppc ... it can be done. beware some X clients have endianess issues which cause the colors to be nasty when the client and server are of differing endianess. (windowmaker tends to exhibit this in debian, disabling use of hermes fixes it). > someone have done some similar? yes -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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