[Eug-lug] Booting Old World Macs [was: Gnoppix Ubuntu LiveCDs]

[Max Lemieux]

see below for my responses inline...

Ken Barber wrote:

>On Wednesday 05 January 2005 3:07 pm, Max Lemieux wrote:
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>>2 questions about the PPC CD's:
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>>1) is there a torrent?
>>2) does it boot on Old-World G3? (i.e. beige 233/desktop rev1 G3)
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Ken Barber wrote:

>Longer answer:  You CAN boot an OW Mac if you use BootX.  Basically it lets 
>MacOS start, then takes over and loads the Linux kernel from your MacOS 
>System folder.
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I've heard of it, but I didn't have a MacOS install at the time I 
installed Linux so that wasn't an option, unfortunately. (or 
fortunately  - I shudder to think of the combined boot time of Classic 
MacOS and Linux).

>I have Yellow Dog Linux 4 running here on a beige G3/333.  It was a pain in 
>the *** to get it installed onto an Old World machine, but it can be done.  
>It's very stable and a pleasure to use as long as you don't care about the 
>audio.  They're still working on that part (some apps work; some do not).
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Yeah, I never had sound on that machine, not even when it was running OS 
9 (I suspect hardware problems). I take it you do have partial sound 
support on the G3? OSS? ALSA? I wasn't savvy enough to mess with kernel 
modules at that point... so never got to play with it much. Soon, I 
hope. Ironic since painless sound was one of the best features of those 
machines....

General agreement re: stability and pleasure. Running modern software on 
that ancient hardware just makes me grin. :)

>Ken
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