[CLUE-Tech] OldWorld G3 help

[Adam Bultman]

> Thanks, SuSe is a good product, but its PPC version lags behind its
> intel version.  Suse PPC 7.3 (the latest version) is more than a year
> old and doesn't support the ATI Radeon card and some other important
> functionalities.  I've had equally lousy luck with YellowDog and
> Manndrake.  Debian's my last resort.


Tsk tsk, you are all forgetting the best distro in the world! Gentoo! 
Here's the install directions for PPC.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-install.xml

Adam

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Joe Linux
> Sent:	Wed 5/28/2003 6:36 AM
> To:	clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
> Cc:	
> Subject:	Re: [CLUE-Tech] OldWorld G3 help
> 
> All I know is I've seen some version of SuSE running on a Power Mac.  It
> 
> was pretty cool in that it looked just like SuSE running on my PC at the
> 
> time.
> 
> Francis Maier wrote:
> 
> >I'd like to install Debian Woody on my OldWorld PowerMac -- a beige
> >desktop G3/300 with 768 meg RAM, which I upgraded with an XLR8 ZIF to a
> >G4/500.  
> >
> >I'd like to run OSX and OS 9 on the same hard drive as Linux.  You Mac
> >folks will remember that, with the beige G3s, OSX must be installed in
> >the first partition of the hard drive, and that first partition must be
> >less than 8 gigs in size.
> >
> >My hard drive is EIDE, and about 28 gigs.  Using OSX Disk Utility, I
> >created a first partition of 7.9 gigs in HFS+ for OSX; a second
> >partition of 11 gigs in HFS+ for OS9; a third, small partition of just
> >32 megs in HFS to run BootX; then a fourth Swap partition of 256 megs
> in
> >UFS; and finally a fifth Root partition of about 10 gigs in UFS.
> >
> >Debian begins to install fine, but then can't find or create any Linux
> >partitions.  I belatedly discovered that using Apple Disk Utility for
> >partitioning is a bad idea, and Debian will apparently not recognize
> UFS
> >partitions -- or at least those created by OSX.
> >
> >Is there any way I can make Debian work now without wiping my hard
> drive
> >and starting again?  Alternately, what partitioning scheme and tool
> >should I use?  Am I going about this correctly?  Is having all three
> OSs
> >on my beige G3 even possible?  Thanks for any help.   
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