well, i have a few mklinux cd's here... i used to run it myself until
linux-ppc came along... all my hardware is 604 and up...
J.
On Tue, 14 Mar
2000, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:
> Hello,
> No Linux-ppc will not run on a 6100.
> http://www.linuxppc.com/support/guide/UserGuide_Feb2000.pdf
> Linux-PPC & Yellowdog requirePCI based powermacs like the 601,603,604,750
> (G3), and the 7400 (g4). The NuBus based pwermacs like the 6100, 7100,
> and the 8100 all require MKLinux which was a product developed by Apple
> (http://www.mklinux.org They have a super cool dancing penguin on that
> page) for the purpose of beta testing their mach kernel. After the Mach
> kernel was moved to MacOS X development of MKLinux really stopped. I was
> able to get my copy of MKLinux from amazon.com, there starting to get rare
> it seems. If you require cutting edge off a mac, its time to buy a newer
> one anyway - if you want to have fun and go back to the days where Linux
> required a bit of effort to figure out MK Linux is good. Myself
> personally, I have been using Linux for a bit over three years. I miss
> the old days sometimes when it was tough, not impossible - but difficult.
> The install isn't pretty, but it works.
> I'm not sure how much of the above was knownen by people, but I
> figured a little bit of background would be good for people. THat
> includes myself as I was a bit rusty with knowledge as well. On BLU's
> website http://www.blu.org/links/ under ports I added a few links about
> ppc and other proc.
>
> Hope thats a help,
> Anthony
>
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
>
> > linux-ppc won't run on a 6100?
> >
> > J.
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Anthony J. Gabrielson
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > Distro's for the 6100 are really easy - there is one whole choice,
> > > MKLinux. MKLinux isn't bad a bit out of date but not so bad. I haven't
> > > had an oppurtunity to fully tear into it, with classes and all. It comes
> > > with a book and two cds. Its based on RH 5.0, its not bad. The book is
> > > helpful.
> > >
> > > Anthony
> > >
> > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, David Kramer wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > I run linux on old 6100.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anthony
> > > >
> > > > I'm going to try this in a month or so when we get all the data we can get
> > > > off my wife's not-fully-booting 6100 (death by MacOS-9 upgrade). What
> > > > distro did you yse? Someone was recently touting Yellow Dog (I think
> > > > that was the name).
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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