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Re: "Debian Within a Darwin System"



You can boot from a Darwin CD and install it on an OldWorld system with the help of XPostFacto from Ryan Rempel at http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/. Even with its help, it could may be not an easy job to install into a 7500 system (some stories at the xpostfacto forum).
To install on such systems, you will need G3 or G4 upgrade cards (http://eshop.macsales.com/Accelerators/index.cfm).
At the forum you can find several articles dealing with a Darwin Installation (albeit the vast majority deals with a Mac OS X installation).
I think you can resurrect some old -but excellent- mac hardware with much less money than purchasing a new system, and the old systems could be good servers in tasks such as email, dns, or print services.
With the Quadra you will have less luck.
Regards,
Javier

El domingo, 8 agosto, 2004, a las 12:13 , Derrik Pates escribió:"

Scott Henson wrote:
I work for the csee department here and we have tons of hardware
laying around including some old powermac 7500 and a quadra something
or another. Im pretty sure we have some hardware laying around
somewhere that will have hardware that is supported by X86 darwin,
otherwise I think Im going to try to install on the powermac or
quadra(no clue what this is) but I hear that installing on oldworld
powermacs is a bitch and I would rather do it on the plentiful x86
hardware we have here.

Well, installing a recent version of Darwin on an OldWorld system is difficult to impossible - the current boot stuff (which is what OS X also uses) only works on NewWorld systems, so it's be a real pain to get Darwin on such systems. Certainly won't work on anything that doesn't have at least a G3 CPU in it. The hardware requirements are generally the same as OS X - less memory and disk required, but same CPU family.

A Quadra, on the other hand - that's a 68k CPU, and Darwin will definitely _not_ run on such a system. Sorry, no dice. As Brad Boyer mentioned, the debian-68k list would be an appropriate place to ask about it. Or if you'd rather run a BSD, www.netbsd.org might be more appropriate for you.

-- Derrik Pates
dpates@dsdk12.net


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