[TriLUG] Linux on PowerMacs

[Dewey Hylton]

can't speak to netbsd, but i have a few g4 mac minis running openbsd that
do very well. and if a serial port is available, openbsd can be installed
and managed via serial port (i do this with my soekris and alix boards
as well) so the lack of video card might not be a roadblock.

i stopped trying to put linux on these underpowered boxes long ago. in my
experience, newer machines usually run linux just fine - but older stuff
with minimal ram, not so much ...

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Igor Partola" <igor at igorpartola.com>
> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 2:26:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Linux on PowerMacs
> 
> 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?
> >
> > The other is a PowerMac G4. This is all I know about it right now
> > as the
> > video card has been removed. If anyone here has a video card that
> > will work
> > in this device and wants to have some fun trying to get this one
> > going, do
> > let me know. I imagine since it's a NewWorld machine it should go
> > quite a
> > bit easier.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
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