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



On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 23:46:15 +0100
Grant Sewell <dclug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

Just thought you'd like to know that I downloaded the 7 CDs for Debian 3.0 PPC (6 
Discs and 1 "NON-US Disc 1") tonight (God bless night classes at local education 
establishments with their 8Mbit connections :D) and I'll be giving them a shot 
shortly.  I also got NetBSD for PPC for good measure.  If anyone is interested, 
drop me a line off-list and I'll burn some and pop them in the post.

Let you know how I get on as soon as I give them a go.  First of all I have to 
retrieve them from the 6Gb drive I take into School with me, since that's the disk 
I'll be putting in the Mac :D.

Cheers all.

G.


Me again!  All seems to be going well with the Debian PPC install.  A few teething 
problems, but nothing too bad.  Boots fine from the floppies supplied on the CDs.  
Wouldn't recognise the swap or ext2 partitions I created with (mac-)fdisk, at all, 
in any way shape or form.  When I mkfs.ext2ed, however, I was given a stupidly high 
inode count, which it obviously never reached.  Bells started ringing!  Anyho, dded 
/dev/zero to /dev/hda, then badblocked it and all seems to be fine.  Install now 
recognised the partitions I create on it.  Yipee.  All I have to do now is figure 
out how to get quik installed and working nicely.

Cheers.

Grant.
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