Debian 3.1 for PPC

[David C. Hacker, DVM]

David C. Hacker, DVM
On Jul 13, 2004, at 9:52 PM, Clinton MacDonald wrote:

> 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.

You have to dream sometimes :)
>
>> 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.

I had a 1.2 GB drive in it.  I am sure you could get a CLI server up 
and running on 500 MB.
>
>> 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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> DOT net>
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