RE: FW: (clug-talk) macintosh questions.

Shawn Grover Sun, 19 Jan 2003 16:58:53 -0800

Nathan, if you are in a pickle and need them quickly, contact me off list, and we can arrange a time to hook up. I'm assuming you have a SCSI configuration we can test the drives with? In a worse case scenario, I DO have an Adaptect 2940 SCSI card (though I've had no need to use it for a couple of years), so we can probably use it to build a test platform if needed (assuming everything works right).

Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: nathan wainwright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 6:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FW: (clug-talk) macintosh questions.

when is install fest? i'd be willing to pick up a couple 3gb drives, provided they startup...

how would i format them for mac/os (again, i need them right now for DTP)

Shawn Grover wrote:

 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

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.

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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