Debian Etch ppc (PowerPC) - Qemu Ready

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Summary

Image:Debian_logo.png
Operating System Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) last updated on 25-02-2008
Architecture ppc
Creator Fabiano Tarlao - sertar6 (at) virgilio (dot) it
Size 300MB (about)
OS Website http://www.debian.org
Published 25 Feb 2008 (CEST)
Bittorrent link http://www.oszoo.org/images/qemu-ppc-debian-etch-image.tar.torrent

About the image

Name: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) Prep PowerPC image

Author: Fabiano Tarlao - sertar6 (at) virgilio (dot) it

For suggested Qemu (qemu-system-ppc) invocation see included documentation (inside tar). You also need to use Qemu 0.9.1 or upward.

Login Credentials user: root, password: root (I suggest creation of a no-root user)

Description: Main .tar contains both disk image, a kernel archive with modules, instructions for running image with Qemu.

Image includes minimal Debian GNU/Linux 4.x (etch) console installation, updated Ocaml compiler, Midnight Commander and miscellaneous utilities (mc, gcc, g++,ocaml 10.1).

Default language: English

Kernel version: 2.4.36.1 Prep (specifically configured for Qemu, note 2.6.x cause errors running qemu)

hda disk size: 3GB (There is also a little Prep Boot partition)

Using this PPC linux image with qemu is useful for easier application develoment for embedded PPC boxes.(examples:Linkstation LS2 and Synology DS207).

This image is used for MLdonkey cores compilation: [1]

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