[Gllug] Yellow Dog & Mac 7300/200

[Harvey Kelly]

Thanks,

I'll let you know how I get on.  Spare evening tomorrow - so let's
see, I'll be 
posting Friday night / Saturday morning in between pulling my hair
out...

Cheers!

Harvey

-------------------
>On Tuesday 17 February 2004 19:07, Harvey Kelly wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've been given an old Macintosh 7300/200 and would be grateful if
>> anyone with
>> experience of installing/running/kicking it with YellowDog would
let
>> me know of
>> anything to look out for - I have no idea about Mac hardware for
>> example, so recompiling a kernel seems a bad idea.
>
>Only have experience with an old ibook, but if anything it looks like
Linux 
>runs smoother on PPC than x86 (fewer hardware combinations must
help).
>
>I've installed two versions, and YellowDog's recent releases seemed
to install 
>flawlessly for me over the top of an old LinuxPPC. Toughest thing
with the 
>original install was getting the bootloader to work - plenty of
voodoo 
>involved first time around. YDL seemed to install over the top of it
smooth 
>as silk though, so I might just have been an early adopter.
>
>My recommendation - read the READMEs, and then do so again.
>-- 
>  Richard Huxton
>  Archonet Ltd
>

Harvey Kelly
mailto:harvey.kelly at kcl.ac.uk 
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug