[plug] Linux on Macintosh 8500/120

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Wed Mar 2 14:30:46 WST 2005


On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:26 +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:

Pretty sure it was the Blue & White G3 - the beige G3 is IIRC an
old-world machine.

> I have Debian running on a 9600 and it works pretty well.  The
> installation was a bugger though, needed to install Mac OS 7.5 on a
> small partition and boot Linux from that using BootX (the normal
> non-Mac OS bootloader just refused to work for me).

I think YaBoot etc are new-world only.

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Craig Ringer




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