Re: dual boot debian on a 6100/60 mac
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 06:44 am, Amal Phadke wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:20:21PM -0800, ben wrote:
> > yo list,
> >
> > i've got 48 hours to mess with someone else's 6100/60 mac box and need to
> > know if debian can be dual-booted on that arch, running mac os8.1. i've
> > only used dual-boots on pc's up to now. 4 hours of googling isn't getting
> > me the answers i need. i don't have the system disks for the mac os, so i
> > need to do it right, or not, at all. all hints and clues greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > ben
>
> The short answer is NO. As far as I know, only micro-kernel Linux
> (http://www.mklinux.org) works on 6/7/8100 series of Power Macs which
> have NuBus instead of a PCI bus. PPC Linux requires PCI bus. I used
> MkLinux about 5 years ago on a 8100 class PowerMac, but now I believe
> MkLinux is practically dead.
>
thanks for the response. yeah, it does seem that you're right with the short
answer. it's all about the issue of nubus as opposed to pci. i eventually
dredged up that info not long after i posted.
ben
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