Anybody every try Debian on a Mac?

[Craig]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:12:41PM -0800, Dario Alcocer wrote:
> Does anyone out there have any tips or experience with installing
> Debian potato on a Macintosh?  I've got an old Performa 6300CD (NuBus
> PowerPC machine, CPU runs at 94MHz) that I'd like to use to play
> around with Linux.
> 
> MkLinux is a Linux running on a Mach microkernel, and it appears to be
> the only Linux available for NuBus Macs (the newer PCI based ones seem
> to have much better Linux support.)  Supposedly there are Debian
> potato diskettes that will install MkLinux, but I suppose I'd have to
> get a matched set of potato Base install diskettes for this to work.
> Since potato is an old release, it seems unlikely that I'll find
> these.
> 
> If anyone has any idea, I'd be happy to hear them.


I used to run debian-68k on a Quadra 800.
Installed from cd's I got from cheapbytes:
http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart/0070010762?REof3BRT;;58

You should check out the debian lists, some are ppc-specific, they
should be helpful:
http://lists.debian.org/
http://lists.debian.org/ports.html

CraigW