On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 19:52, nathan wainwright wrote: > > > > > > > > > So I managed to fandanlge a couple of free powermacs. 7200/90 and a > 7200/75, anyone know where I can get some 168 pin 70ns ram for these > puppies (need to have them in pairs, would like to get 32/64 meg chips).
Try My Mac Dealer on McLeod and 11th Ave. I'm pretty sure that's where I got RAM for an old Mac in the past (http://www.mymacdealer.com/). > Also, does anyone know what version linux these would run, and of course > can I just buy a new SCSI drive for them? (they only have like 500meg > harddrives in them). There are many Linux distros for PPC hardware. There are some issues with some older PPC Macs so you should look into your specific model. I have an old Performa 5200CD and it had issues (just my luck). With that system the best distro. is MKLinux (http://www.mklinux.org/). This was Apples Linux distro. It actually runs a Linux server on top of a BSD Mach Kernel. The last time I used it, it was based on an old version of RedHat (6.2 I think) and was highly out of date, I know there has been at least one update since then, but I doubt that was anything more than bug and security fixes. I was also able to load Debian PPC (http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/) on that machine, but I couldn't get the X server to run. Other PPC distros include Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/), Mandrake (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppc.php3), SuSE (http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/ppc/index.html), and Yellow Dog (http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/) as well as some smaller distros (http://penguinppc.org/projects/other_distros.shtml). If you need any help installing Linux on these machines, bring them to the next installfest. If I can make it, I would love to help you out. Good luck, Jesse
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