On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:09:59AM +0000, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I've been using PowerPC on an old Mac 7200/90 with reasonably good results. > However I'm thinking of moving our intranet server to a g4 Cube, and at the > same time moving to Debian. > > Does Debian support new Apple hardware? Debian supports whatever the current linux kernel supports in regards to PowerPC hardware (and sparc, x86, alpha....) i think the cube is booting now but its support is still in development. it will probably work but might be unstable for a couple weeks/months till things get finalized. Ben would be able to answer this better. > What booting system would be used for a G4 Cube? you need an 800K bootstrap partition at the beginning of the disk type Apple_Bootstrap, yaboot and a first stage bootscript are installed here. see my web pages on yaboot and ybin for info on this. > Finally, does anyone distribute Debian powerpc disks in the UK? no idea, do you have a fast internet connection? if so disks are really not necessary debian can install entirely over the network. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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