While not overly cost effective, why not trying
upgrading the 601's to 604's and try running NetBSD?

--- mat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there, I've been reading for ages but this is my
> first post.
> I have a couple of old 7500/100s that I'm trying to
> do something useful
> with. I've been through all the linux versions and
> have them happily running
> away in the background as headless web servers under
> mandrake linux.
> I'd like to do something more with them but OS X and
> Darwin are both pushing
> it, so I waited on Yellow Dog Linux 3 to test them.
> It crashes.
> If I use text mode, it crashes.
> No matter what options I pass the kernel, it
> crashes, and crashes...
> If always crashes as the installer attempts to
> partition the HDD. Now, I'm
> no stranger to linux and know what I'm doing, and
> there's nothing wrong with
> the HDDs. Has anyone else had this problem or know
> of any known bugs with
> oldworld macs and YDL3?
> Thanks,
> Mat
> 
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