Debian

[sloopy]

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 23:12, James A. Ricken wrote:
> Hi Guys & Gals
> 
> I have a 8600 upgraded with a sonnet G4 400 proc card and also have 3
> hard drives installed,one drive has Mac OS 9.0 and Ydl,3.0 on it,another
> has OS X on it and the other has Linux Mandrake installed on it.
> 
> My question is I have a copy of Debian for ppc cd #1 and I was thinking
> about installing it on one of the drives,I even went as far as booting
> into debian installer using bootx .Everything went fine,but the only
> drive that would show up to install debian was the scsi that came with
> the computer it is only a 4gig scsi.why won't the others show up? they
> are ide.

the driver for that ide controller may not be in the kernel and/or
modules so it doesnt recognize and use it...

> I was going to do a basic debian install does that include kde and
> gnome?
> Would this be even worth doing on an old world ppc?
> Thanks Jim
> 

worth? well depends on why you want to run it... if you are just
interested in trying out debian, then sure it is worth running...


sloopy.