Greetings Edwin,
I did a comparison of the supported hardware on the m68K site, and the specs
for your machine on lowendmac...
From what I can gather, any Mac with the 68030 processor and FPU should boot
Linux, but as far as I know the PB 150 has no FPU. Don't despair yet, I also
read this in the FAQ:
"The Linux/m68k for Macintosh FAQ (p 9 of 39)
Update 5/26/2000: FPU emulation should be functional on all 68030
machines in the latest 2.2 kernels."
Check back with the linux m68k site to find out the where and how for FPU
emulation for your PB150, then give it a try. :)
AFAIK, X is ported, though I haven't tried it yet- I'll probabally have to wait
'till I can make more room on my IIfx's HD, or swap in another.
My next mini project is to get terminal emulation a la ZTerm with linux so I
can access my ISP (I don't have a ppp account yet...) There's a m68k version of
minicom- I'll try installing shortly.
good luck with your PB 150!
peace,
scb
>Edwin wrote:
>Hi, Scott or anyone else who knows about such things
>I'm interested in trying out linux on my PowerBook 150. On the Debian
>page
>I couldn't find whether it's supported. Do you know if it is.
>
>http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/
>
>Also, is the X windows server ported?
>Edwin Lowe
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