On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:34:54PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Charles> Hey crew! Thinking about installing Sarge on a Dual 2Ghz > Charles> PowerMac G5, is that possible via the ppc release? > > If you have an older machine (a PowerMac7,2 with the 970 G5 processor) > it should work with no problems or so I'm told. If you look at the > "About This Mac" information in OS X and your CPU version is 2.2. this > is what you have (I think, I don't own this type of machine). > > If you have a newer machine (a PowerMac7,3 with the 970FX G5 > processor) it should work with tomorrow's (or perhaps Jan 15) debian > installer daily build. Support was added in December > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/12/msg00806.html > > This kind of machine reports its CPU Type in "About This Mac" as a > PowerPC G5 (3.0).
Indeed, but the modules .udebs corresponding to said kernel are not yet in sarge, which could cause some problems. > If you just can't wait you can use a recent daily build (Jan 2005) if > you are prepared to hack things a tiny bit as suggested here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/01/msg00159.html Daily builds should use it since over a week now, i think. Friendly, Sven Luther
