Future useful life of StarMax 5000

[Bert Knabe]

I've had LinuxPPC on my Starmax 3000/180. I've currently got Debian 
running on it, but I haven't been able to get my XF86Config setup 
correctly to run X (I haven't had a lot of time to mess with it). I 
tried to install yellowdog, but it always had so many errors trying to 
install I gave up.

Bert

On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 02:20  AM, Paul Henry Wehr wrote:

> This MacClone of an Apple PPC 4400 has lead a good clean life and I 
> wish for it to continue to serve me well. Next month, I hope to set it 
> up as a home LAN server and as a firewall (I think) connection with 
> cable or DSL to the outside world. I'm thinking that YDL may do the 
> trick and it would be worth it to me to buy one of the packages if I 
> can be relatively assured that I will be able to communicate with the 
> outside world--and the inside world.
>
> I don't plan to use it as a work station, though it would be nice to 
> experiment with server types of programs without endangering the 
> outside world. (My bash scripts and perl coding is rather hit and miss.)
>
> I think I remember reading on the YDL site that they suggest that the 
> StarMax clones would probably work with YDL , but were not specifically 
> supported. A year or so ago, I installed a dual boot Linux on my 
> StarMax, but could not print, could not use the ethernet, and couldn't 
> communicate with my Mac (big surprise--it was busy running Linux. ha 
> ha.) Is there anyone out there successfully running something similar 
> on a StarMax clone?
>
> I've got StarMax 5000 MT/250 w/Sonnet G3/350, 160 MB RAM, SCSI CD, Zynx 
> Ethernet card, VooDoo3 2000 video card, USB card, Adaptec IDE adapter 
> card, SCSI and IDE hard disks of assorted sizes from 4.5 GB to 60 GB. 
> My connection with the outside world is a dial-up account with a USB 
> modem.
>
> I anticipate needing a different card to connect with a power modem, a 
> hub, and assorted additional network cabling, dropping the USB modem, a 
> couple of the hard drives. It won't be to critical to me if the G3 card 
> or the video card aren't supported.
>
> I don't imagine I would hear from anyone who is having better success 
> with another distribution. Why would they hang around YDL lists? I kind 
> of picked YDL since they will be just down the street from where I'll 
> be next month.
> -- __          nen no maru
> |__)        haiyai arukimasu
> |  aul Wehr  www2.gol.com/users/pwehr
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