Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ppc (18 mails)

[Ronny Schröder <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

am 16.07.2004 11:01 Uhr schrieb John Galt unter galt.john@xxxxxxxxx:

> The hardware is old enough that os9.1 is the latest thing it will run
> (pre G3 hardware)  I'd just like to make good use of it.  If OSX
> would run on it that would probably be my first choice.
> 
> -Galt
> 

PCI-Mac are divided in two groups: Old-World and New-World
Old-World means a gray-colored case, New World is everything above the first
iMac (colored case)

This means you might have an Old-World Mac:

Suse and I think the other distributors supports the following OW-Macs:
PowerPC 7600, 7500, 7300, 7200
PowerPC 8600, 8500, 8200
PowerPC 9600, 9500
PowerPC/Performa 6500, 6400, 5500, 5400, 4400, 6360
G3 Desktop, Towers, All-in-Ones

I tried several distributions, like Debian, Gentoo (very flexible - but much
work), YellowDogLinux (YDL) and Suse 7.1 (never found 7.3 for Download and I
didn't  want to pay another 50 Euro for another Suse-Box)

OW-Mac can't boot from CD but on CD 1 of Debian or YDL is everything you
need to start an OW-Mac out of a working Mac-OS.

I would try Debian or YDL.

If you have problems, feel free to mail me.
  
-Ronny-