PLEASE NOTE: If you choose Network as the installation source, a desktop environment will not be installed regardless of what you are booting!
It is, however, recommended to use network installation when you can, as only then you can get latest packages out of the box without having to update the system.
There are installable live images for the ppc target (32-bit big endian,
glibc). You need to choose whether you want a desktop environment out of the
box or not.
All live images are available at:
The images are named void-live-ppc-<date>-<flavor>.iso:
base: plain command line systemxfce: graphical flavor with the Xfce desktop environment and the SeaLion
web browser (plus Dillo and Links)icewm: lightweight graphical flavor with the IceWM window manager and the
same browsers, for machines with little memory (256 MB)The ppc images have these requirements:
All require at least 350MB disk space for installation. 32-bit systems can do with less RAM than 64-bit ones; for the Xfce image at least 512MB are recommended, the IceWM image is meant for machines with 256MB.
These may not be exhaustive, but the live images contain data necessary for boot on OpenFirmware systems and utilize GRUB (yaboot is included for older firmware). If you succeed in running the live ISOs on other systems (or know how to make them work), please let us know.
Log in as anon/root, password voidlinux.
To start the installer just execute the void-installer utility with enough permissions (i.e sudo). The installer has paths for Apple and CHRP systems.
The sha256sum.txt file contains the
SHA256 hashes to verify the integrity of the downloaded files.
Installed systems get their packages from the signed xbps repository at
The package statistics page shows what is built. There are no mirrors at the moment.
To use a different repository, create files in /etc/xbps.d with the same
names as those in /usr/share/xbps.d and replace the URL. Only the files
containing ‘repository’ in the filename need to be duplicated to
/etc/xbps.d/.