[TriLUG] Linux on PowerMacs

[Igor Partola]

I haven't used a BSD system (not counting OS X) in about 10 years, so I'm
not either. I remember it was easier to get going on some older/esoteric
hardware, but a lot of things have changed in 10 years.

Thanks, but I can't take these off your hands. I'm now about 500 miles
north of RTP.

Igor

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:

> Possibly, though I'm not versed in the ways of the BSDs. You want to give
> it a shot?
>
>
> On 12/17/2012 02:26 PM, Igor Partola wrote:
>
>> Would NetBSD be a better choice in this case? :)
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
>>
>>  I have just come into possession of two PowerPC based Macs to play around
>>> with.
>>>
>>> The first is a Power Macintosh 8600/250. It's an OldWorld system that I
>>> have spent most of the last two days trying to get Linux on. The
>>> farthest I
>>> got was the Debian installer attempting to configure the network on DHCP.
>>> Packets were going out (I could see the requests on the DHCP server) but
>>> nothing was coming back. Given the age of the machine and the amount of
>>> hair I've pulled out, I'm guessing the best I can do is find a dumpster
>>> for
>>> this thing. Does anyone have a recommendation on that score, or be
>>> interested in parting the machine out?
>>>
>> --
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