R.M. > Linux on Macintosh 6400 > Posted by: "R. M. Culp" [EMAIL PROTECTED] mmsculp > Date: Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:46 pm (PDT) > > I work at a school and have two 6400 Macintosh machines I would like to use > with Linux. > > Is there a form of Linux that would work?
One thing you really need to check is whether the different Linux distros (Debian, Yellow Dog, Gentoo, etc) consider if your Mac falls under the category of Old World Mac or New World Mac -- see below. Check out the following sites (I did a google search for linux + powerpc): Yellow Dog Linux: www.terrasoftsolutions.com/ http://penguinppc.org/ http://penguinppc.org/mac/ > Hardware > All Power Macintosh before the G5 are 32-bit PowerPC; the G5 is the first 64-bit Macintosh. Information about very old (pre-PCI) Macs can be found at the NuBus Linux project; all others are PCI-based and contain other common hardware like AGP. USB, ATAPI (IDE), and IEEE1394 (Firewire). Aside from PCI/NuBus, the other major hardware division is "New World", meaning iMac and later, and "Old World", meaning pre-iMac. > Bootloaders > Old World Macs must use either BootX (which requires a bootable Mac > OS installation) or quik (which must deal with the buggy firmware of that era). > > New World Macs use the yaboot bootloader. Good luck -*-Bill ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
