Debian 3.1 for PPC

[Clinton MacDonald]

David:

David C. Hacker, DVM wrote:
>> A distro for Motorola 680x0? In less than 100 MB?
>
> That is just a net install iso. It downloads all of the rest on the fly 
> from the installer.

Oh. :-( Thanks for injecting some reality into my pipe dreams.

> It works good if you have a solid connection. I 
> have used debian on 68k macs. The CLI works good,
> but gnome was SOOO slow. I was using a Quadra
> 660AV. It was 25/50 mhz and had 64 MBs of ram.

How large a hard drive will it consume? I have an SE/30 kicking around 
with a 250 or 500 MB drive (I don't remember precisely). However, I 
imagine were talking 1.5-2 GB or more here.

> Haven't fooled with it lately though. For a CLI 
> server I think itwould work great. Or maybe using
> a lightweight windowmanager like fluxbox or
> something.

That sounds like fun!

(What am I talking about? I don't have time to install Yet Another 
Distro on Yet Another ancient Mac! I still haven't installed YDL on the 
Power Mac 7500 that was going to be my Internet firewall. Bad Clint!) :-)

Best wishes,
Clint
(who has three PowerBook Duos to which no distro of Linux was ever ported)

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Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT net>