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Re: Power Mac 6100/66



>From what I heard, this is due to it having NuBus slots instead of PCI. I'll
try to find a reference & send to you.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Mesker" <jasonm@tool.net>
To: "Daniel Jacobowitz" <dan@debian.org>
Cc: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: Power Mac 6100/66


> No kidding?  I thought so also and I tried mklinux and it said you are
trying
> to run this on a power pc...  Now I'm quite confused....
>
>
>
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 01:47:14AM -0400, Jason Mesker wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello, I am trying to install PPC Debian on my little old lame mac
that
> > > is doing nothing but collecting dust.  I grabed the images off of the
> > > debian archive and tried to boot but ran into a problem.  It started
> > > booting and I saw Tux beside the computer but then the system locks up
> > > and I get a multi-color screen.  My main reason for even trying to
work
> > > with this machine was to help bug trap for the debian project.  I
don't
> > > mind reinstalling multiple times on this machine to help with error
> > > trapping the install process.  I know many times after debian gets
> > > installed it never has to be installed again.  Anyway, if you guys
would
> > > like I would be happy to help out.  Thanks.
> >
> > The 6100/66 doesn't run LinuxPPC; it needs MkLinux.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > /--------------------------------\  /--------------------------------\
> > |       Daniel Jacobowitz        |__|        SCS Class of 2002       |
> > |   Debian GNU/Linux Developer    __    Carnegie Mellon University   |
> > |         dan@debian.org         |  |       dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu      |
> > \--------------------------------/  \--------------------------------/
>
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