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| Click here to select a new forum. | | What unix for a dual 604e 200MHz in an 8600? | Posted by: SiliconValleyPirate on 2008-05-10 15:44:50
IIR that was one of the things that made YLD so popular, it works on pretty-much any PowerPC Mac.
| Posted by: chris on 2008-05-10 19:15:34
I could have sworn that Debian supported Old World PPC machines(I know they support 68ks)
| Posted by: QuadSix50 on 2008-05-10 22:07:54
I could have sworn that Debian supported Old World PPC machines(I know they support 68ks) Debian does support Old World Macs, but you have to make sure that you copy over the kernel and ramdisk image to the Mac OS partition before you reboot after the installation finishes (assuming you use BootX). Otherwise, you won't be able to boot into your installation. It basically requires that you know which partition under GNU/Linux is the Mac OS one, load the respective modules (depending on which HFS filesystem you chose), mount the Mac OS partition, and then copy over the kernel and ramdisk with "cp".
As a matter of fact, I even did this with Ubuntu and it also worked. However, Ubuntu has a lot of overhead that older stock Old World Macs might choke on.
Also, as of Debian Etch support for 68K Macs has apparently been dropped.
| Posted by: macdownunder on 2008-05-10 23:17:08
Any votes for YellowDog? I ran/run YDL 2.3 and 3.0 on an Apple Network Server and while it was down once, put it on a G3 AIO. Given I had little choice with the ANS it performed pretty well.
I had it on my Wallstreet for a little while too....
No complaints, but all my experience was running in command line as a server.
Regards,
Macdownunder
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