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Pantso:
I didn't know if I should start this topic at the Linux or the Mac OS forums. I finally decided to put it here so if you mods think it belongs to the Linux section, feel free to move it there.

Now, to my question:

Has anyone installed Yellow Dog, Debian Linux or any other Linux PPC distro on his Mac? If you have, what problems did you encounter? You see, old habits die hard and I sorta miss Linux.    I've also heard that Linux runs great on Apple computers, so I'm thinking of setting up a dual boot.

ravuya:
LinuxPPC Live cooked my firmware on my old 604/120. I got the firmware back to normal, but somehow my CD-ROM drive died along the way. I dunno if it's related or not.

I haven't tried any newer Linux installs though, but MkLinux booted fine when I tried it a couple years back.

It's worth a try, but if I were going to install a UNIX on a Mac, I'd do netbsd. The NetBSD support for PPC is just that much better.

MacUser3of5:
I would be interested in this also... I'm going to have sold access to a T1 for the weekend, and I want to get my time's worth of downloads...  :D  

So, anyone try a dual-boot? How would, say, a TiBook running Jag handle this? My main concern is whether or not Jag will play nice...

rtgwbmsr:
I installed YDL on my PowerBook running 10.1.3 (at the time).

It is fast, and I only ran into one problem:
Whenever I try to do anything with my ADB port it locks up.

All in all, a good OS on a good platform. Try it out!

psyjax:
I installed Yellow Dog Linux with no problems whatsoever on my Mac. But it dosn't support my videocard (GeForce 3) so I run it with my secondary ATI 7000 card whenever I get the inclination.

It works with the GeForce 3, but the colors are all off. Other than that I find YDL to be very stable and easy to work with. Not easyer than OSX, but pretty simple none the less.

The install is quick and painless and has good documentation.

Another distro I tried was Mandrake which also has a very easy installer, tho I could never get it to run.

The only major problem I encounterd was using Yaboot, the standard bootloader. It was a pain in the ass to get of the Harddrive. After fiddlin for what felt like forever I could not wipe it.

Eventually this conflicted with OS9's bootloader which prevented me from logging back in to classic. This caused me so much trouble that I just called in my warantie and got a new hardrive  :D

In any case, YDL is the way to go.

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