Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?
Thanks for the useful information. It is the first time I got such a detailed and nice answer in a newsgroup. I will try to put (as soon as my wife goes in holyday) your suggestion into practice, I hope I will do good use of them.
I am planning to upgrade to sarge and install xfce on the machine, since is a computer I do not use anymore I can play around as much as I want without fear of loosing data.
Yes Brian, maybe …one day …I will do my first kernel compilation…(I forgot to say that I am a newbie, but you may have guessed).
Do you think that the x-window-system and xfce can fit into a 1.3 Giga? (this is what is left in my pbg3 and I do not want to erase the Mac OS 8.6 partition since I am attached to it and also I don’t want to go back an do pdisk and so on since I remember it was really complex). I see that xubuntu need 1.5 Gb of disk space!
cheers
Bibinix
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Datum: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:03:55 -0700 (PDT)
Von: brian <cymraegish@yahoo.com>
An: bibinix@gmx.net
CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Betreff: Re: Which kernel is good for my Powerbook G3?
> hi,
>
> like Sven says don't forget to copy your new
> kernel back to macos partition so bootx can find it !
>
> also take care you have security update in your
> sources.list and then you should get the last kernel
> of sarge which is 2.6.8-3 powerpc.
>
> I think you are safe upgradeing from woody to sarge,
> if you are thinking to go further upgrades to etch and
> beyond it will probably be ok. but it may be a bit
> slower, maybe sometimes. Also depends on how much
> memory you have there as more is getting to need
> all the time.
>
> In fact that is the biggest difference to me.
> some old version of linux i picked up for starters
> on my old g3 that was from '99 it gave me the whole
> of kde for 32MB of RAM and 500MB of disk. today need
> I estimate 256 RAM for kde maybe ?? Anyway i just use
> an lightweight window manager such as openbox.
>
> I have two g3 one is a desktop of march 1998 and one
> is original g3 powerbook of November 1997. the
> powerbook did fine with stock kernel up until
> pre-release of etch and is now running lenny/sid with
> a local kernel built...
>
> I have tested etch kernels on my desktop g3 and could
> use the stock ones there, and i imagine it would be
> same for you but I cannot guarantee. well I think
> that the one wallstreet with more problems was a
> 233mhz. What you have maybe is also called PDQ --
> should be ok if you have RAM. I would reccommend at
> least 128, but it does vary a lot depends on what you
> do. you can boot with probably 32 but like I say above
> for kde you probably want 256.
>
> also if you wish to practice build your own kernel
> anyway it is not that hard and it may be faster and
> use less RAM. it takes about 3 hours to build on mine.
>
> Well my pbg3 has 160 and I haveing no desire for kde
> can pretty much do what I like. on the dtg3 with 192,
> macosX is running short by about half so i need to
> either finish my debian updgrade or get more RAM.
>
> well good luck,
>
> brian
>
> --- bibinix@gmx.net wrote:
>
> > I have installed Debian Woody on my powerfull
> > PowerBook G3 266 Mhz (the black model without USB
> > ports, I think its called WallStreet) I was doing a
> > distro-upgrade with apt-get when the process
> > signalised that I have to upgrade also the kernel (I
> > have the version 2.4).
> >
> > The command :
> > apt-cache search kernel
> > give me the following result:
> > kernel-image-2.6-power3 - linux 2.6 image on power3
> > - transition package
> > kernel-image-2.6-power3-smp - linux 2.6 image on
> > power3 - transition package
> > kernel-image-2.6-power4 - linux 2.6 image on
> > power4/G5 - transition package
> > kernel-image-2.6-power4-smp - linux 2.6 image on SMP
> > power4/G5 - transition package
> > kernel-image-2.6-powerpc - Linux 2.6 image on
> > powerpc-class - transition package
> > kernel-image-2.6-powerpc-smp - Linux 2.6 image on
> > powerpc-smp-class - transition package
> > kernel-image-power3 - linux image on power3 -
> > transition package
> > kernel-image-power3-smp - linux image on power3 -
> > transition package
> > kernel-image-power4 - linux image on power4/G5 -
> > transition package
> > kernel-image-power4-smp - linux image on power4/G5 -
> > transition package
> > kernel-image-powerpc - Linux image on powerpc-class
> > - transition package
> > kernel-image-powerpc-smp - Linux image on
> > powerpc-smp-class - transition package
> >
> > Which is the good one for me?
> > No one can give me some hints on the process of
> > kernel upgrade? How does it work?
> > Upgrade the kernel with apt-get (?)
> > Reboot on woody
> > Apt-get distro-upgrade.
> > It looks like to simple…will I be able to reboot
> > after the kernel installation (I use BootX)?.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Paolo
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