CRUX PPC

Hi, I was the happy owner of an Efika PPC (based on the PPC5200) until the system crashed on me. Unfortunately, the original Debian is no longer available and I heard on the PowerDeveloper.org forum that Crux supports this board. My dream is now to be the happy owner of a Crux-based Efika server :-)

I read the recommendations and am struggling with the pendrive (I decided to go for the slower option because it is supposed to be the easiest). I read that it has to be formatted in ext2 with inodes of 128 bytes but my mke2fs does not support less than 1024(my usual machines are Windows and FreeBSD, in case Linux supports a wider range of formats).

What is the recommended mkfs command under Linux to a format a pendrive for the Efika?

Thanks in advance
Olivier

hi and wellcome CRUX PPC.

I agree and you choose the best way to install CRUX PPC on Efika altough the slowest one.

from CRUX PPC FAQ

Anyway as the Efika is able to manage dos partition table i strongly suggest to use it for a better usability if you need to remove your hdd and use it on a different machine. Thus you can directly use fdisk to prepare partitions on your disk.

To speedup the installation process you can avoid to rebuild the kernel copying it from the installation media just before to chroot in your fresh new CRUX PPC 2.7a system.