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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-powerpc-utils" role="wrap">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="powerpc-utils.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>Powerpc-Utils_&powerpcutils-version;</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-powerpc-utils">
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| 14 | <primary sortas="a-Powerpc-Utils">Powerpc-Utils</primary>
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| 15 | </indexterm>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 18 | <title/>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <para>The Powerpc-Utils package contains a number of utilities for Power
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| 21 | Macintoshes and other similar machines. Most of these utilities are now
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| 22 | obsolete, but <command>nvsetenv</command> is needed by <command>ybin</command>
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| 23 | to install the bootloader on an hfs partition.</para>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <segmentedlist>
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| 26 | <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <seglistitem>
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| 29 | <seg>GCC, Gzip, Make, and Patch</seg>
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| 30 | </seglistitem>
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| 31 | </segmentedlist>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | </sect2>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 36 | <title>Installation of Powerpc-Utils</title>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <para>This package, originally pmac-utils, has issues with NewWorld macintoshes.
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| 39 | The following debian patch fixes these issues and generally updates the package,
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| 40 | although it also introduces a bogus warning to update the kernel headers.</para>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <screen><userinput>zcat ../&powerpcutils-patch; | patch -p1</userinput></screen>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <para>Compile the useful programs:</para>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <screen><userinput>make nvsetenv nvsetvol</userinput></screen>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <screen><userinput>install -m755 nvsetenv nvsetvol /usr/sbin
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| 51 | install -m644 nvsetvol.8 /usr/share/man/man8</userinput></screen>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | </sect2>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <sect2 id="contents-powerpc-utils" role="content">
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| 56 | <title>Contents of Powerpc-Utils</title>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | <segmentedlist>
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| 59 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 60 |
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| 61 | <seglistitem>
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| 62 | <seg>nvsetenv, nvsetvol</seg>
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| 63 | </seglistitem>
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| 64 | </segmentedlist>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | <variablelist>
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| 67 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 68 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 69 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 70 |
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| 71 | <varlistentry id="nvsetenv">
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| 72 | <term><command>nvsetenv</command></term>
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| 73 | <listitem>
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| 74 | <para>Manipulate variables in the non-volatile RAM.</para>
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| 75 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-powerpc-utils nvsetenv">
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| 76 | <primary sortas="b-nvsetenv">nvsetenv</primary>
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| 77 | </indexterm>
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| 78 | </listitem>
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| 79 | </varlistentry>
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| 80 |
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| 81 | <varlistentry id="nvsetvol">
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| 82 | <term><command>nvsetvol</command></term>
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| 83 | <listitem>
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| 84 | <para>Adjust the volume of the boot-up chime on Macintoshes.</para>
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| 85 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-powerpc-utils nvsetvol">
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| 86 | <primary sortas="b-nvsetvol">nvsetvol</primary>
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| 87 | </indexterm>
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| 88 | </listitem>
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| 89 | </varlistentry>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | </variablelist>
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| 92 |
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| 93 | </sect2>
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| 94 |
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| 95 | </sect1>
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