ppc32 on Xserve?

[Ken Moffat]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Milton Miller wrote:

>
> One utility you might look for is the "ppc" utility that changes the uname 
> returned to be ppc instead of ppc64.  Sometimes that lets packages install 
> that otherwise think they are not on the right architecture.  Unfornately I 
> am not sure where to obtain it.
>

  That sounds like 'linux32' which I grabbed from my local debian mirror 
- on my G5 with fully 32-bit userspace (non-debian, built from source), 
everything seems to work as if it was just a ppc (I had to wrap agetty, 
and then gdm, to call them from linux32, otherwise configure scripts 
tried to build a 64-bit system).  But, you might not need it - I 
couldn't boot debian on my G5 SMU, but ubuntu seemed to give me a fully 
32-bit userspace and a uname of ppc.

Ken
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