Re: [LUG] Linux on (oldworld) PPC?

[Grant Sewell <dclug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Tristan.

> I've had a bit of experience with Macs and MacOS, dabbled with YDL PPC
> and even 68K Linux.

Hehe.  I keep looking at the 68k Linux and thinking it'd be nice to have a go with 
that... then I remember that I cannot connect my 68k Mac to a monitor so it'd be a 
bit hard and pointless.  Not sure why I have still kept it.  Anyway, onto the PPC 
Mac:

> You shouldn't need the installation disks, simply copy the 'System'
> folder (I think that's what it was called, its the one with the Mac on
> the icon) from your old HD to your new one, either by mounting both
> drives, over a network, using removable media or burning a CD.

I can't connect another IDE drive to the machine.  It has a single cable that 
appears to be hardwired to the motherboard-plasticy "dock" thing.  I cannot burn CDs 
as the drive that came with it is a R.O. drive.  I have no removable media (other 
than the good ol' floppy).  How would I copy the System folder to a network?  The 
only other machines I have are x86 boxen.  I could setup a NetATalk network, but as 
I understand it, some elements of files do not copy too well.  And how would I copy 
it back again after Linux installation?

> You should then only need a partition big enough to hold the system
> folder and necessary extensions (<50Mb should be okish for a stripped
> down system folder) and the rest can be partitioned for Linux.

That's fine except for the above.  And I would really like to have Linux on a 
completely separate drive.  I'm not one of those people that is frightened of 
partitioning and so needs a new drive (I regularly have ~5+ x86 distros running on 
my main box), I am one of those people that has a very small harddrive currently 
installed in the Mac (2Gb) and would rather like to dedicate the whole of a 6Gb 
drive to Linux.

Thanks for the suggestions anyway.

Cheers.

Grant.

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