[WelMac] Linux on PowerPC

[Barry Malcolm]

Thanks Jo, I'll have a look at Ubuntu.

Enjoy your leave
Barry

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>>From: Barry Malcolm <barrym at actrix.co.nz>
>>Date: 29 May 2006 23:46:32.0
>>To: Jo Booth <mangee at welmac.org.nz>
>>Subject: Linux on PowerPC
>>
>>Hi Jo
>>
>>I was at tonights meeting and asked Wayne if anyone in the  club 
>>might have tried installing Linux on the PPC. He suggested I 
>>contact you about it as he thought you had some experience of this.
>>Is this correct?
>>
>>The reason I was asking is that I've installed a PCI card with USB 
>>ports in my PowerMac 7300 and no matter what I try I cannot get the 
>>Mac  software to talk to the USB ports and thus to my digital 
>>camera or card reader. I've used OS8.6 and OS9.0 and downloaded the 
>>USB adapter card software v1.4.1 from Apple. The ASP can tell the 
>>USB card is there and the card's manufacturer <sunix.com.tw> tells 
>>me no driver is needed. It seems to me the problem must be in the 
>>BIOS. I've finally got fed up and think I'll try switching to 
>>Linux  on the Mac, as I've had no problem with using Linux on my PC.
>>There seems to be at least 5 flavours -- Mandrake, Yellow Dog, 
>>Debian, Gentoo and LinuxPPC.
>>
>>If you have tried it, or are using it, I'd be delighted to hear 
>>what success you have had, what problems you have met, and what 
>>flavour of Linux you used.
>>
>>Best regards
>>Barry
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>I have done it... see the piccies at <http://www.flickr.com/photos/ 
>mangee/68959828/>
>and <http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=me&q=linux+mac&m=tags>
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>I've installed m68k linux and ubunutu.. on a variety machines.
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>I'm on leave at present, so will forward this to the welmac 
>discussion list for further info.
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>http://wellylug.org.nz is the local Linux Group - who hang out on 
>irc  -- irc.wellylug.org.nz on channel #mac or #wellylug
>See also <http://wellylug.org.nz/index.php?page=discussion/ discussion.php>
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