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Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2022 3:31 pm**

Hi.
Is there a root password in Void?
thanks
Peter

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2022 5:03 pm**

musa wrote: Wed Nov 16, 2022 3:31 pm Hi.
Is there a root password in Void?
thanks
Peter

Peter,

You can change the root password with “sudo passwd”.

Have a nice day.

Christian

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2022 9:41 pm**

Hi Christian
Thanks
Peter

Posted: **Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:03 am**

Please note: Void PPC is EOL so we have to be careful with installing and updating of packages.

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2023 2:21 pm**

FYI

Wicknix wrote: Better hurry and install the packages you want. The void ppc repo could get taken offline any day now. Even the old ppc maintainer doesnt know the exact date as its not his server. Otherwise it really is a nice OS. Install octo-xbps for a gui package installer. Makes finding stuff much easier.

Posted: **Fri Mar 17, 2023 3:58 pm**

Hi All,

The latest Void disk image has a boot and a root partition. I was able to mount the root partition from the disk image and copy it to a new disk image with the following commands:

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tar zxvf void-live-powerpc-20220129.img.tar.gz

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ls -ltr

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-rw-r--r-- 1 christian christian 8036285952 29. Jan 2022  void-live-powerpc-20220129.img

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fdisk -lu void-live-powerpc-20220129.img

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Disk void-live-powerpc-20220129.img: 7,48 GiB, 8036285952 bytes, 15695871 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xd0a60bb8

Device                          Boot  Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
void-live-powerpc-20220129.img1        2048   473087   471040  230M  6 FAT16
void-live-powerpc-20220129.img2      473088 15693823 15220736  7,3G 83 Linux

Calculate the offset from the start of the image to the partition start

Sector size * Start = (in the case) 512 * 473088 = 242221056

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bc
bc 1.07.1
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'. 
512 * 473088
242221056
quit

Mount it on /dev/loop0 using the offset.

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sudo losetup -o 242221056 /dev/loop0 void-live-powerpc-20220129.img

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sudo fsck -fv /dev/loop0

Output:

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fsck from util-linux 2.38.1
e2fsck 1.46.6-rc1 (12-Sep-2022)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Inode 30261 extent tree (at level 2) could be narrower.  Optimize<y>? yes
Inode 30322 extent tree (at level 2) could be narrower.  Optimize<y>? yes
Inode 30660 extent tree (at level 2) could be narrower.  Optimize<y>? yes
Inode 30695 extent tree (at level 2) could be narrower.  Optimize<y>? yes
Inode 30739 extent tree (at level 2) could be narrower.  Optimize<y>? yes
Inode 30785 extent tree (at level 1) could be narrower.  Optimize<y>? yes
Inode 30874 extent tree (at level 1) could be narrower.  Optimize<y>? yes
Inode 30903 extent tree (at level 1) could be narrower.  Optimize<y>? yes
Inode 30907 extent tree (at level 1) could be narrower.  Optimize<y>? yes
Inode 30908 extent tree (at level 1) could be narrower.  Optimize<y>? yes

Inode 153472 extent tree (at level 1) could be shorter.  Optimize<y>? yes
Pass 1E: Optimizing extent trees
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information

void: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****

      175735 inodes used (36.94%, out of 475776)
         288 non-contiguous files (0.2%)
          27 non-contiguous directories (0.0%)
             # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0
             Extent depth histogram: 163035/24/5
     1476045 blocks used (77.58%, out of 1902592)
           0 bad blocks
           1 large file

      134534 regular files
       13777 directories
           0 character device files
           0 block device files
           0 fifos
         690 links
       27415 symbolic links (12663 fast symbolic links)
           0 sockets
------------
      176416 files

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sudo mount /dev/loop0 /mnt

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ls /mnt

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bin  boot  dev  etc  home  lib  lib32  lost+found  media  mnt  opt  proc  root  run  sbin  sys  tmp  usr  var

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sudo umount /mnt

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sudo dd if=/dev/loop0 of=void-live-powerpc-20230317.img

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15222783+0 Datensätze ein
15222783+0 Datensätze aus
7794064896 Bytes (7,8 GB, 7,3 GiB) kopiert, 83,3552 s, 93,5 MB/s

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/sbin/fsck.ext4 void-live-powerpc-20230317.img

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e2fsck 1.46.6-rc1 (12-Sep-2022)
void: clean, 175735/475776 files, 1476045/1902592 blocks

I increased the Void root disk image:

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qemu-img resize void-live-powerpc-20230317.img +5G

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/sbin/fsck.ext4 -f void-live-powerpc-20230317.img

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e2fsck 1.46.6-rc1 (12-Sep-2022)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
void: 175735/475776 files (0.2% non-contiguous), 1476045/1902592 blocks

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resize2fs void-live-powerpc-20230317.img

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resize2fs 1.46.6-rc1 (12-Sep-2022)
Resizing the filesystem on void-live-powerpc-20230317.img to 3213567 (4k) blocks.
The filesystem on void-live-powerpc-20230317.img is now 3213567 (4k) blocks long.

We have copied the root partiton from the Void disk image to a new image and increased it.

Cheers,
Christian

Posted: **Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:30 am**

Hi All,

I was able to update Void in the root disk image yesterday. I think, this is the last Void disk image. Please change to Fienix in the future.

New:

Noboot disk image (image without boot partition)
Fbdev is pre-configured
Renamed the libglamoregl.so to libglamoregl.so.bak
Yaru themes
Arctic Fox 40.1
Pale Moon 31.2

Download: void-live-powerpc-20230317.img.tar.gz (md5sum: 9e663d6045ffc24e58b7adbd4b9c9629)

If you want to enable hardware acceleration manually, then edit the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Change the "driver" from fbdev to radeon.

Please test it.

Thanks,
Christian

Posted: **Tue Mar 21, 2023 6:55 pm**

Configure the language (locales) in Void PPC

Choose your language:

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sudo vim /etc/default/libc-locales

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sudo xbps-reconfigure -f glibc-locales

Replace the locale with yours in the file /etc/locale.conf
Logout and then login again

BTW, here is a screenshot of the Void Installer in action:

Posted: **Mon Apr 17, 2023 5:15 pm**

Important:

TRIM will not be activated automatically if Void runs on an SSD.

SSD TRIM enables an operating system to inform a NAND flash solid-state drive (SSD) which data blocks it can erase because they are no longer in use. The use of TRIM can improve the performance of writing data to SSDs and contribute to longer SSD life.

I tested fstrim manually today and it works.

I installed cronie and created a cron job for fstrim.

Screenshot with further information:

Thanks to Roland for the hint.

Christian

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2023 10:17 am**

Hi All,

There isn't a TV card software available for Void PPC. Therefore I created a TVtime package for Void PPC today.

Download: TVtime_1.0.11_linux-powerpc.tar.gz

Installation:

Unpack the package and create the directory /usr/share/tvtime with the following command:
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sudo mkdir /usr/share/tvtime
```
After that copy the font tvtimeSansBold.ttf to the directory /usr/share/tvtime/ with the following command:
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sudo cp usr/share/tvtime/tvtimeSansBold.ttf /usr/share/tvtime/
```
Then you can start TVtime with ./tvtime.

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