[TriLUG] anyone using yellowdog linux?

[Ian Meyer]

They usually used a "regular" SODIMM in one slot, and a "low-profile"  
(really what's regular for a laptop) on the processor card's underside,  
using low-profile SODIMMs in both won't hurt anything though

~ian


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On Feb 12, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Ricky Gravely wrote:



> Thanks Michael.
>
> I opened the iMac I just bought and realized that the
> memory stick was the same width as some laptops I've
> used, but the height was about twice that.  Is that
> similar to what you've found?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ricky
> --- Michael Sh <mnh_222 at lycos.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Ricky,
>>
>> All the older iMac's can run up to 512MB of RAM.  I
>> bumped up two "tray loaders" the 233 and 266 MHz
>> with 512 MB RAM kits from DataMem in Salem, NH:
>> http://www.datamem.com
>> They had the additional 4MB of video RAM for the old
>> 233 as well.
>>
>> The "slot loader" model uses the standard sdram and
>> will go up to 512 as well.
>>
>> Another interesting side note is that they will all
>> work with HDD's up to 137GB.  So you could
>> tentatively upgrade to a 120GB, although with OSX,
>> the tray loaders need a partition of 8GB or less at
>> the beginning of the drive for the OS, and the rest
>> becomes storage space pretty much.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ricky Gravely" <ricky4work at yahoo.com>
>> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list"
>> <trilug at trilug.org>
>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] anyone using yellowdog linux?
>> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 18:33:36 -0800 (PST)
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Mike!  I'm considering bumping my memory up
>>>
>> to
>>
>>> 256 too....do you know if that is the max it will
>>>
>> run?
>>
>>>
>>> Ricky
>>> --- Michael Sh <mnh_222 at lycos.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have several G3 iMac's which were given to
>>>> me...One, a blueberry 266MHz with 256MB RAM, is
>>>> happily buzzing along on YDL 4.0  No issues thus
>>>> far. I had an earlier version of YDL running on
>>>>
>> an
>>
>>>> original "bondi blue" 233MHz with a trifling
>>>>
>> amount
>>
>>>> of RAM and it ran ok as well.  Mike
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Ricky Gravely" <ricky4work at yahoo.com>
>>>> To: trilug at trilug.org
>>>> Subject: [TriLUG] anyone using yellowdog linux?
>>>> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:27:37 -0800 (PST)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> I ran across a cheap iMac G3 and have begun
>>>>>>
>> to
>>
>>>> load
>>>>
>>>>> Yellowdog Linux 4.0 onto it....any comments?
>>>>>
>>>>>> (other than "what the heck are you doing
>>>>>>
>> with a
>>
>>>> Mac?")
>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Ricky Gravely
>>>>>>
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