PPC 8500/150

[Rick Thomas]

I don't know if the 8500/150 has (or could have) a ZIP drive, but that
would certainly be big enough to boot from -- either some patch on the
debian boot floppy, or a real-live MacOS 7.5.x with BootX.

If the 8500/150 doesn't come with one, I'll bet you can get a SCSI
ZIP-100 on E-bay for a pittance.

Rick

Clinton MacDonald wrote:
> 
> Guy:
> 
> On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 05:35  PM, Guy McArthur wrote:
> > Yes, you *can* boot Linux from a floppy on an OldWorld PowerPC without
> > needing MacOS.
> 
> 
> The Yellow Dog installer uses a vmlinux Boot file
> ("vmlinux-2.4.20-8dBOOT") that weighs in at 3.1 MB, and the RAM Disk is
> another 924 kB compressed (the full size is over 8 MB -- I happen to
> have the YDL Install disks in front of me). o