>> What I would ideally like to do is get it dual (or triple) booting >> between linux & Mac OS. I am not overly worried about storing data on >> it as I have a Windows 2003 domain (yes I know) that acts as my file > > That is an awfully expensive toy to have at home. The server is the expensive toy? Actaully it is an old computer from work using a copy of server 2003 that I got for free...hehehe
The Mac I also got for free...but just haven't been doing much with it other than playing aorund with it. >> it supports an AirCard I am contemplating installing one...but would >> want to make sure that the AirCard would work in Linux as well. > > Hit or miss. Make sure there is a good return policy wherever you get > the card. I gues sthe same could be said for any wireless card...but theoretically I wold imagine if it works on OS X it should have a good chance to work on Linux as well. >> What I need suggestions on is the following: >> * Any distro suggestions? I am pretty comfortable with and would >> prefer using *buntu's but I don't know if they still make any of these >> for the PPC chips. Do they? If so where are they found? > > Debian still supports PPC (what doesn't debian support) > Ubuntu dropped PPC in favour of Sparc. I suppose debian would be a good candiadte.. probably the closest thing to ubuntu.... Do red hat & suse still make PPC distros? Hmmmm >> I know there is Yellow Dog and have heard is one of the better ones for >> Mac's. Any opinions, etc? > > Excellent distro. Ahhhh...and it would appear that it is RPM based and uses defaults to Gnome but with enlightenment e 17 >> * What pre-installation steps do I need to consider? Is there a special >> order I should install things in? > > Use google. You mean you don't have a list at your desk gustin? Shame! ;-) >> I am planning top use OS 9.2.2 right now and if I can ever get my hands >> on a copy of Mac OS X I would like to install that as well. I don't > > OS X has steep hardware requirements. You should make sure that you > meet (or better still exceed) the minimum requirements. Do not expect > that you will be able to run the latest version of OS X on this old machine. From what I have seen it will supposedly run OS X up to 10.4...but I could be on crack about that... >> know if it is recommended/possible/advisable to boot into 9 & 10 & then >> into Linux as well...basically setting up a triple boot. Or is it >> better to have an OS 9 for now, then upgrade it to OS X & run OS 9 stuff >> in classic mode & then stick with a dual boot? > > Seriously, when it came to Macs, I had only one OS on them, either > Debian or YD. MacOS 9 seems kind of pointless, Especially these days. > Kind of like running Win95. I wanted to have access to the OS 9 as well because I stil get some support requests for it and sometimes need to test thing sout. >> * Seeing as it will initially connect to a Windows domain and later to a >> Linux domain is there anything I would need server side? I knwo windows >> has services for mac, but I am thinking if there is something for Linux >> or possible an open source equivalent of Services for mac in windows. I >> seem to remember something like that... but the name escapes me and >> can't think of the details. > > Samba. OS X uses samba. Not sure how it worked on older MacOS > versions, though personally I don't care :) Hmmm...I will need to keep digging on this one. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
