With regards to the SCSI drives you're looking for, I have a small stack of drives here that I inherited when we moved our office (they had no need for them anymore - a bit too small for their needs).
So, I have 6 or 7 drives ranging from 1 to 3 GB. But I don't know what state they're in - operational or not. I'd be willing to part with them for $25 a shot. (hope that's a fair number). I can bring them to the install fest if someone will have a SCSI configuration there we can test them on..... Guess I should ask... Is there a difference between standard SCSI and a drive for a MAC? Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Jason Louie To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 1/17/03 11:17 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) macintosh questions. If you goto www.linuxiso.org they have a list of flavors of linux that you can download that is specific to architecture. Jason Jesse Kline wrote: > > 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 RedHat (6.2 I think) and was highly out of date, I know there has been 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: signature.asc > signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature > Description: This is a digitally signed message part
