Re: [SLUG] Old World Mac Project

From: btt@nethouse.com
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 08:17:53 EST


On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:42:42AM -0500, Russell Hires wrote:
> Yes! I've been running my Beige G3 for a couple of years now. It
> works like a charm...I don't use Quit, though, I use BootX...

Kewl. I had mklinux running on an old Power Computing Power 100. It
was my first experience with linux. Up to then, I had never used
anything other than MacOS... it was pretty weird seeing linux boot up
for the 1st time.

> On Tuesday 11 March 2003 03:45 pm, you wrote:
> > Folks:
> >
> > Installing debian on a PPC for the first time.
> >
> > It's wierd. I'm dealing with OpenFirmware and Quik, both of which
> > seem to be amazingly difficult.
> >
> > I'm thinking of bringing the machine to the tampa meeting with me
> > tomorrow, but my question today:
> >
> > Has anyone done this before?
> >
> > The machine in question is a Beige powermac g3(?) 266 with 128Mb
> > of ram, floppy, cdrom, and an internal zip drive.
> >
> > --Jeremy



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