On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:47:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > My question is: > > Can debian be installed on a black NeXTstation? > (Actually using NeXTStep.) > > the procesor is a motorola 68040, 2G HD. > > if it can be done, what are de system requiements?
Linux/m68k runs on those systems, yes, but Debian doesn't provide an installer, since no Debian developer has the hardware. However, that shouldn't mean you cannot possibly install Debian on it; you should be able to install Linux/m68k on your NeXT, install debootstrap, create a Debian base system, and boot that; once that's done, you have a running Debian system on your NeXT. If you're interested, you and I could work together to write an installer which would support installing the next release of Debian, Sarge, on the NeXT[1]; to do so, I'd need to know how to boot a NeXT, I'd need a working kernel configuration and kernel source, and you'd have to test the installer quite a few times :-) [1] Am I the only one who finds that sentence confusing? -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
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