On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:29:11AM -0400, george wrote:
On 7/16/04 3:09 AM, "John Galt" <galt.john@gmail.com> wrote:
I was recently given an older pci bus power mac that I'd like to run linux on. slackintosh seems to have ceased development and yellow dog won't boot from the iso I burned. I'm looking at suse-ppc as I'm moving toward running suse on everything I can.
Where can I find more info about suse-ppc especially drive setup/partitioning and instalition?
Is suse-ppc undergoing current development and up to date? (I noticed that 9.1 seems to be current but could only find 7.x for ppc)
How do install suse-ppc? (seems there is no iso and the PowerMAC architecture is extremely differn't from the intel background I come from)
can OS8.6/OS9.1 coexist on the same physical drive and dual boot with suse?
Thanks,
-Galt
What model mac is it? Most will run Linux, some will not.
SuSE for PPC is dead.
Mac's will not boot from a cd in the way as you know how to boot from a cd. You must have some apple OS on the drive. (9 on down, no OSX)
The best current Linux that I know of is Yellow Dog Linux.
SuSE for PPC as Box Product is ... dormant. The Enterprise PowerPC versions will boot and install on PowerMacs with some handholding, but are a bit pricy. Ciao, Marcus