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Personal Notes on Installing software on a Powermac G5

Ive recently acquired a Powermac G5 from a friend/org, it did not come with any discs nor harddisks. The Graphics card glitching and battery flat. The PPC is a intresting architecture I plan on exploring. First things first, get an OS working on this beast of a heavy aluminium thing.

These are personal notes, I dont plan on writing a tutorial or a 1-2-3 step. Most commonly one need to get a Install medium of some sorts and boot this. an Target medium for holding the final OS would be handy, one could go for an empty SATA harddrive, wich is my plan.

Sadly, either pirates are dumb, or I cant find the correct disk to ressurect this thing. Found upgrade disks and disks that wont boot. My personal collection of disks wont help and the only thing sofar legally booting is a copy of a G4 harddisk I have. maybe ill try some magic with that. Buying the real thing is also a bit weird, a previous owner paid for the OS, why would i need to repay someone some of t

General information or "tutorials"

https://hhuysqt.github.io/zynq1/ CHinese hello world

https://programmersought.com/article/43024210515/ English translation?

https://www.jianshu.com/p/b83c663ecaaa chinese blog on the board

Intro Notes

I wrote this guide because after getting my CubieBoard 1 I followed the Arch Linux ARM instructions and was suprised to be left with a system that albeit working, had missing RAM and no fbconsole at all.

This guide gets Arch Linux ARM into your 1GB Cubieboard 1 with the minimum functionality one would expect. It is not intended to be an all encompassing document, focusing instead on saving your time having to read through the forum to get functionality that otherwise every other Linux distribution brings out of box.

You will have to adjust these instructions if you have a 512M Cubieboard.

Step 1 - Format disk your SD Card

At a minimum, you need to create the first partition on an SD card to store the bootloader files and kernel uImage. For the root filesystem you can choose to use either a second partition on the SD card, USB or SATA. This guide however only covers SD. Replace instances of /dev/mmcblkX with the appropriate device name registered on your system.

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# Copyright CodeAsm. 2020
	#

	cd /home/codeasm/Projects/Emulation/NAS



	sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m size=8G \

	#!ipxe
	set base-url http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/archlinux/iso/latest
	kernel ${base-url}/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz-linux archisobasedir=arch archiso_http_srv=${base-url}/ ip=dhcp cow_spacesize=2G raid=noautodetect
	initrd ${base-url}/arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img
	boot

	#
	# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
	# Linux/x86 5.8.3 Kernel Configuration
	#
	CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="gcc (GCC) 10.2.0"
	CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC=y
	CONFIG_GCC_VERSION=100200
	CONFIG_LD_VERSION=235000000
	CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION=0
	CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK=y

	#!/bin/sh

	HDD=~/SchoolProject/lfs.qcow2
	qemu-system-x86_64 \
	-enable-kvm -smp 4 -cpu host -m 4G \
	-sdl -vga std -drive file=$HDD,format=qcow2 \
	-net nic,model=rtl8139,macaddr=E4:1F:13:AD:B0:0B -net user


	## Working order
	git-2.28.0
	cURL-7.71.1
	make-ca-1.7 (runtime)
	wget-1.20.3
	make-ca-1.7 (runtime)
	p11-kit-0.23.20
	libtasn1-4.16.0 (do this, else you get an older version(GnuTLS))
	GnuTLS

	// KDE Plasma 5 dependency graph (dot)
	// BLFS 10.0
	// Required only
	//
	// style=solid : required
	// style=solid arrowhead=dot color=grey : required at runtime

	strict digraph xorg {
	label="KDE Plasma 5 dependencies
	required only, BLFS 10.0

	=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2017.03.17 21:30:14 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=

	BCM338031 TP0
	1
	Sync:1
	346890
	MemSize: 64 M

	BootLoader Version: 10.1.2 Release Gnu spiboot reduced DDR drive
	Build Date: Dec 23 2009