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Linux on PPC?
heljy:
I was just wondering about buying the powerbook from ubid, I realized its under customer exchange, meaning that ubid is actually not responsible for any of the sales that under customer exchange.
Well, thats not a problem, just that alot of the ppl selling the powerbook are new sellers. And they list payment options: MoneyOrder, Personal Check, Other.
Is there anyway that I can protect myself in case the sale didnt go well? (like I sent payment, but item not sent, etc)
Anyone here have any good experience with it?
Thanks
TheGreatPoo:
I noticed that YDL has support for older Macs down to the 7500. I have a Performa 6360 (for those of you who are familiar with the classics ;) ) that I have upgraded the hell out of. I'm pretty sure that it will work with my video card (ATI Rage Plus w/8MB VRAM) but my only concerns are will it work with my processor and my ethernet card? My processor is a 400MHZ Sonnet Crescendo Upgrade made to fit in the L2 Cache slot. Works great! My ethernet is a genuin Comm slot II 10/100 MBPs Apple ethernet card.
Also, do I have to set up YDL in a dual boot or can I just have it be stand alone? I wish I could run OSX but unfortunately OS 9.1 is the latest I can go
Any help on this will be GREATLY APREACIATED!!! :D
Pantso:
Hmm, I don't know if your hardware is supported or not. Why don't you take a look at YDL's support page?
As for the second part of your post, the answer is that you can have YDL standalone on your machine, but I would suggest making two partitions, one for OS 9.1 and the other for YDL. You can then install OS 9.1 on the first partition and YDL on the second. The YDL manual also suggests that you create three partitions inside your Linux partition, one for the boot manager (Xboot or yaboot) eg /dev/hda9 and assign it about 10 MBs, another one for swap eg /dev/hda10 and the last one for your root partition eg /dev/hda11.
The main reason for having OS 9.1 installed is MOL , short for Mac On Linux, a program that lets you run Classic from inside Linux. It's really easy to set up and fun nonetheless.
Hope this helps
psyjax:
Actually, since your machine is an "old world" mac. You MUST have OS 9 installed. What you do is launch the boot loader from OS9, this dumps the OS and initiates Linux.
The reason for this is that YDL must load up the mac ROM present in those old machines and OS 9 is the only thing thing that can do it.
Calum:
so what's the most recent mac that can have onlylinux on it, if you so choose to make it that way?
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