gnu/linux on pwerpc 6100

[David Wadson]

On Feb 28, 2005, at 10:39 AM, Cian Duffy wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:45:34 +0100 (CET), Paolo Del Bene 
> <rglug at yahoo.it> wrote:
>> can i install gnu/linux on powerpc 6100 ?
>
> Yes, with difficulty

Actually it isn't that hard...provided you can get enough hard drive 
space, RAM and a CD-ROM drive that will read the CD's...unless you go 
with a net install. I believe that 64MB of RAM  made things work 
better.
>
> Being a YDL list, I advise you to go with YDL, probably 3.0 on a
> machine that old. Its all precompiled.
>
> You must use the NUBUS-Pmac tools to get any Linux other than mklinux
> on that machine
>
> http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/
>
> This is in addition to the YDL3 discs.

I think Debian was a little easier to install, but at the time I was 
just starting with Linux and most of the info/faqs/howtos were geared 
towards Redhat so I went with YDL 3.

Dave