[TriLUG] yellow dog (old world)

mike massey linuxheels at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 10 07:19:54 EST 2005


i just installed yellow dog 4.0 on the g3 (everything
built  in behind the monitor). I had never touched a
mac until then but the install went fine, I had to do
a text install and then edit the XF86Config file to
get the X server to work but other than that it runs
great.

--- Ian Kilgore <ian at trilug.org> wrote:

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> Cristobal Palmer wrote:
> | I was inspired to google for "powerpc hpc" given
> one of the recent
> threads.
> |
> | I ran across
> http://www.ballboy.net/tss_spirit/yPod/yPod-sm.mp4
> and
> wondered
> |
> | (1) o.0
> | (2) 0.o
> |
> | and finally
> |
> | (3) 0.O
> |
> | So my real question is: does anybody on the list
> have an "old world"
> | mac? If so, have you tried putting Linux on it?
> What'd you put on it?
> | I've got one under the futon that needs to be
> resurrected.
> |
> | -CMP
> 
> Installed Debian on my old world G3 (can't tell you
> anything more except
> its beige, sorry ;]).. it works, but the bootloader
> doesn't, after the
> first reboot.  (Yes, weird.)  Floppies and chroot
> work, though (Yes, eew).
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