Michael Tepperis writes: > hi, > > who has experience with debian(powerpc) on powerbook g3. > my machine currently runs mkLinux, but I will change to debian. I'm running the Linux/PPC dev rel 1.0 (esentially a redhat 6.0 beta) on it right now, and intend to try debian/ppc on it momentarily. (right now :)
> my machine has no floppy but zip & jaz. > is there a possibility to start with them or is a floppy mandatory? As far as I know, the floppy install doesn't work right now. You'll have to untar the base2_2.tgz onto a new partition and boot to that partition with BootX (OF on the PB G3 is broken and can't boot to the IDE drive...mine anyway) > how is the the status of: > pcmcia Don't know... > ethernet (internal) Works > modem (internal) Works (when I tried it last anyway) Downside: can't put the machine to sleep***, can't reduce the CPU speed, which means battery life is a little shorter than it should be. Upside: If Geert put the patches he sent to me for the onboard RageLTPro into the CVS tree, the Framebuffer X server will work very nicely with the ATI FB driver in accelerated mode. Hotswapping the expansion bay works fine (floppy/cdrom at least) Josh *** Thats a lie really...you CAN put it to sleep, however when you try and wake it up, it reboots the machine :)
