Re: debian on a powercenter power tower pro

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

"MS" == Maarten Stolte <M.Stolte@Samhoud.nl> writes:

   MS> Second, i tried yellowdog linux, since i had that lying
   MS> around, but that was unable to find the cdrom.  I do have
   MS> two non-mac cdrom drives in the thing, one plextor reader
   MS> and one yamaha writer. Could that be a problem?  Only thing
   MS> i could find on this thing is that it could be a problem
   MS> with adaptec cards, but i don't have any of those in it.
   MS> Any pointers? I'd also like a link to a recent potato ppc
   MS> iso..

Hmm.  My machine has the same CD-ROM drive it shipped with, an NEC
4X, and it works fine.  It has no Mac drives -- by which I assume
you mean Apple-branded drives with their magic circuitry -- at
all.

We had our share of installation problems, though, mostly related
to the state of the Debian PowerPC port at the time (around June
of 1999).  Once we got the system installed, it worked well, with
only a couple of hiccups (related to packages that weren't quite
ready for prime time).

I'm happy to be able to say that as we approach the release of
potato, things are getting better and better.

   CMC

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