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here's a report of successful usage of debian on a couple ppc machines i own/maintain. i have 2 in current use, both oldworld. one's a mac clone, power tower pro. up until several months ago, i was booting it via quik. this works ok, but it has issues with its pci bus, making video on it iffy, luckily it's only a server; to get around it, i boot with bootx from a small mac os 9 partition, with the bootx extension in the extensions 'folder' on the mac partition. otherwise, this machine works fine. the other is a beige g3, tower model. today, i was trying out grub2. i had a pleasant surprise when i tried to boot with grub: quik suddenly worked. as of this current boot session this machine - which is also a server - it has booted via quik. i did see the usual DEFAULT CATCH error that's seen on these machines. i had a talk with rbrito earlier today, and i had mentioned to him/her that quik didn't work on this machine. turns out it's working better. i suppose that's due to a wrong boot-device argument in the machine's OF nvram. both of these currently run debian very well, with varied hardware attached, and have for years. linux gives me the flexibility i want to do with these old beasts. they're slow sometimes, but hey, they're not dual-proc g4 or g5 beasts ;). simon cote -- ,''`. http://www.debian.org/ : :' : Debian GNU/Linux ' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
