Anybody every try Debian on a Mac?

[vsergeev]

Yellow Dog Linux on iMac 233Mhz. 

Yellow Dog Linux is cool, but you should give debian a try...
also..
goto irc.openprojects.net #ppc or something like #macppc umm.... goto #debian and they will redirect you to the the mac debian channels...


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On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:05:25 -0800
Craig <craigw at lvcm.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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