I have an old PowerMac 7200/90 with 64MB of RAM and two SCSI hard drives (500MB and 2GB). Unfortunately, I wiped out many critical applications including Stuffit and the MacOS CD appears to be too scratched to reinstall. Apple says they charge the same for MacOS 9 and for MacOS X. I'm rather frustrated about this and so put it up in the closet.
Is there any way to make use of it as an LTSP client maybe by a boot floppy or something? I really wanted to install Linux on this computer but without Stuffit, I'm completely stuck. --Matthew On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folks, > > I have two Power Mac 6100's with 40 MB RAM sitting on a > table next to me logged into my Athlon LTSP server. The > clients are currently setup for AbiWord and Netscape 6.2.1. > > It seems to be working very nicely! > > The clients are running a 2.4.6-pre3 version of the > kernel hacked up for Nubus-PowerMacs. On the client, > after booting to the (KDE) desktop at runlevel 5, they > are using just about 24 MB of memory. After starting > Netscape, each client uses around 30-60 MB on the server, > as reported by top. > > The PowerMacs have a 540 MB hard drive and builtin > graphic and network adapters. The boot process involves > booting a Linux kernel from the Mac partition with an > attached ramdrive. After the kernel is loaded, things > proceed pretty much the same as if the kernel had been > loaded by TFTP. > > There were two or three problems that I solved along the > way. The last one is that xinit scripts on the server > assume everyone is using a PC keyboard. This is a bad > assumption for the Mac clients, and I found a way of > addressing this in the /etc/X11/xinit/fixkeyboard script. > > The implementation is not totally generic for all > PowerMacs, or let's say I've only tried to make it work > for the 6100s we have at the school. I think it would be > easy to extend what I have to other Macs. At worst, we > could put entries in the lts.conf file to indicate what > the hardware platform is on a per client basis. > > --Skip > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
