Thanks for the useful information. It is the first time I got such a detailed and nice answer in a newsgroup. I will try to put (as soon as my wife goes in holyday) your suggestion into practice, I hope I will do good use of them. I am planning to upgrade to sarge and install xfce on the machine, since is a computer I do not use anymore I can play around as much as I want without fear of loosing data. Yes Brian, maybe …one day …I will do my first kernel compilation…(I forgot to say that I am a newbie, but you may have guessed). Do you think that the x-window-system and xfce can fit into a 1.3 Giga? (this is what is left in my pbg3 and I do not want to erase the Mac OS 8.6 partition since I am attached to it and also I don’t want to go back an do pdisk and so on since I remember it was really complex). I see that xubuntu need 1.5 Gb of disk space!
cheers Bibinix -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:03:55 -0700 (PDT) Von: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3? > hi, > > like Sven says don't forget to copy your new > kernel back to macos partition so bootx can find it ! > > also take care you have security update in your > sources.list and then you should get the last kernel > of sarge which is 2.6.8-3 powerpc. > > I think you are safe upgradeing from woody to sarge, > if you are thinking to go further upgrades to etch and > beyond it will probably be ok. but it may be a bit > slower, maybe sometimes. Also depends on how much > memory you have there as more is getting to need > all the time. > > In fact that is the biggest difference to me. > some old version of linux i picked up for starters > on my old g3 that was from '99 it gave me the whole > of kde for 32MB of RAM and 500MB of disk. today need > I estimate 256 RAM for kde maybe ?? Anyway i just use > an lightweight window manager such as openbox. > > I have two g3 one is a desktop of march 1998 and one > is original g3 powerbook of November 1997. the > powerbook did fine with stock kernel up until > pre-release of etch and is now running lenny/sid with > a local kernel built... > > I have tested etch kernels on my desktop g3 and could > use the stock ones there, and i imagine it would be > same for you but I cannot guarantee. well I think > that the one wallstreet with more problems was a > 233mhz. What you have maybe is also called PDQ -- > should be ok if you have RAM. I would reccommend at > least 128, but it does vary a lot depends on what you > do. you can boot with probably 32 but like I say above > for kde you probably want 256. > > also if you wish to practice build your own kernel > anyway it is not that hard and it may be faster and > use less RAM. it takes about 3 hours to build on mine. > > Well my pbg3 has 160 and I haveing no desire for kde > can pretty much do what I like. on the dtg3 with 192, > macosX is running short by about half so i need to > either finish my debian updgrade or get more RAM. > > well good luck, > > brian > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have installed Debian Woody on my powerfull > > PowerBook G3 266 Mhz (the black model without USB > > ports, I think its called WallStreet) I was doing a > > distro-upgrade with apt-get when the process > > signalised that I have to upgrade also the kernel (I > > have the version 2.4). > > > > The command : > > apt-cache search kernel > > give me the following result: > > kernel-image-2.6-power3 - linux 2.6 image on power3 > > - transition package > > kernel-image-2.6-power3-smp - linux 2.6 image on > > power3 - transition package > > kernel-image-2.6-power4 - linux 2.6 image on > > power4/G5 - transition package > > kernel-image-2.6-power4-smp - linux 2.6 image on SMP > > power4/G5 - transition package > > kernel-image-2.6-powerpc - Linux 2.6 image on > > powerpc-class - transition package > > kernel-image-2.6-powerpc-smp - Linux 2.6 image on > > powerpc-smp-class - transition package > > kernel-image-power3 - linux image on power3 - > > transition package > > kernel-image-power3-smp - linux image on power3 - > > transition package > > kernel-image-power4 - linux image on power4/G5 - > > transition package > > kernel-image-power4-smp - linux image on power4/G5 - > > transition package > > kernel-image-powerpc - Linux image on powerpc-class > > - transition package > > kernel-image-powerpc-smp - Linux image on > > powerpc-smp-class - transition package > > > > Which is the good one for me? > > No one can give me some hints on the process of > > kernel upgrade? How does it work? > > Upgrade the kernel with apt-get (?) > > Reboot on woody > > Apt-get distro-upgrade. > > It looks like to simpleâ¦will I be able to reboot > > after the kernel installation (I use BootX)?. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Paolo > > -- > > GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 > > Free SMS. > > Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: > > http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, > news, photos & more. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
