Its not 'multi tasking' anymore? LONG

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Clint,

Welcome to the world of Linux on a NuBus PowerMac

	http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/

On this site you will find instructions, an installer for YDL-3.0.1, and
an updated 2.4.27 kernel. If you take the plunge, you will discover that
YDL-3.0.1 runs just fine on an accelerated NuBus MAC.


Caveat:

There is a memory contention issue with NewerTech accelerator cards that
no one on the NuBus list has had either the the time or expertise to
resolve. Sometimes, but not every time, the boot sequence hangs.  Once
the box boots, it is rock solid.

Rather than waste bandwidth on this list, if you have interest in
running linux on your NuBus machine poke around the URL above.  If you
need assistance, contact me directly and I will do what I can to you get
it up and running.

For what it's worth, I am Running OS-9 on the Mac side.


-Joseph

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On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 17:00, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
> Dr. Sacco:

> > One of my favorite toys an old Nubus PPC-6100/60AV with a
> > NewerTech 240/160 MHz PDS G3 card, an 18GB SCSI drive, and
> > a womping 264MB of RAM. This box runs YDL-3.0.1, albeit slowly:
> 
> Tell us more: how well does Yellow Dog Linux support the PDS card? I 
> have at work such a machine with (I believe) the exact same PDS-slotted 
> G3 card. In Mac OS 7.x, the card requires a low-level init/Control Panel 
> to function. I was not able to get it to function in Mac OS 9.x, thus 
> killing its efficacy as a Retrospect Backup server (the upgrade to 
> Retrospect that supported Mac OS X backups required Mac OS 9 or higher 
> for the server). Rather than send this machine to our Surplus 
> Department, I would love to keep it in service running something.


> 
> Best wishes,
> Clint
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