On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:26:32PM +0000, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, all. > > I've been pondering installing deb/ppc on a PowerMac 6100/60 that's just > been returned to me after a year or so of being loaned to a friend. Is > this going to be okay? The installation pages linked to from the ports > section of debian.org don't mention the 6100, only the later powermacs. > As far as I can remember, the 6100 was the first powermac that Apple > released, and uses the 601 PPC chip, and (possibly) has a PCI bus. Can > anyone advise?
Sorry, but not easily it won't. No PCI bus. You can install most of the user tools by hand on top of a MkLinux kernel if you really want to. I think that normal kernel support for these machines has actually been evolving, but I don't know its state at present. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
