Topic: Installation on an Apple

[Ale]

Does anybody know about any installation on an Apple or mac or Power PC?
I've been searching on forums without any luck.

[dave rose]

Do you mean to have the Apple, Mac or PowerPC as an Appletalk-client of an e-smith server installed on an i386-type platform, or are you asking if the server install has been ported over to an Apple architecture?

[Ale]

Sorry... I should have been more clear,
I mean a Power PC  running  a server installation (linux)
I think it is not posible...., but newest apples are suposed to be linux ready...

[Tom Belcher]

It is theoretically possible, but not likely.  Macs are based on PowerPC chips from IBM and Motorola.  Yellow Dog Linux works on these machines, but I do not believe Red Hat works on PowerPC, only x86, Itanic, and IBM mainframe stuff. x86 hadware is cheaper and arguably better than Mac hardware, so this is where Red Hat and Mitel put their emphasis. My e-smith is on a dual 1 gig dell system with dual 36gb scsi raid and half a gig of ram, all for less than a grand.

[daithi]

linux has been running on the apple platform for years - have a look at debian, mandrake, yellow dog, linux ppc (redhat derivitive) and i'm sure there are loads more.

[Dan Brown]

Ale, it's probably possible, but it's also probably more trouble than it's worth, and you'd have to build it yourself.  If I were doing it, I'd start with an RPM-based PPC Linux distro (probably Yellow Dog Linux, as it seems to be pretty close to RedHat), preferably with the same or a very similar kernel version (Yellow Dog 2.0 uses a 2.2.19 kernel).  Take the equivalent binary RPMs from that, add the .noarch.rpms from the SME CD, and you'll have a start.  It probably won't work right away, but it'd be a starting point.

Actually, it'd probably be better to use two versions of YDL.  Take the kernel and related RPMs from 2.0 (apparently comparable to RH 7.0), and take the others from 2.1 (seems comparable to RH 7.1).  You'll probably have to build some yourself, but Mitel includes the source RPMs for those either on the CD or on their FTP site.  If all the relevant software builds cleanly for PPC, you'll be pretty much set.  Unfortunately, I don't have a mac to play with, so I don't have any way of testing any of this.

[Hardijs]

> ...Take the kernel and related RPMs from 2.0 (apparently comparable to RH 7.0), and take the others from 2.1 (seems comparable to RH 7.1). ....

And if the person willing to try SME on Apple hardware has managed so far then I do not see a reason to get sme there at all as the individual components will give the appropriate functionality.

SME is only for ease of use - as it does for me.