On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:37:21PM -0600, Patrick Klee wrote: > Hi Debian community, > I want to install Debian on an iMac DV Special Edition and Compaq > Presario 9232, made in 1996. It's a P120 with 40 MB of RAM, but I need to > know what is compatible. For example, I have a Que CD Burner. A kritter > USB webcam and a DVD player, a USB epson stylus scan 2500 and a USB wheel don't even talk to me about epson printers.... > mouse, two buttons, by Kensington. Oh! and an ATI rage 128 graphics card on > the mac, and Quantum Fireball hard drives 1 and 1.2 gig on the PC. the iMac is all fine with Debian, get potato r3 CDs and they should boot it nicely. i don't know anything about the compaq. its not powerpc and thus is OT here. > If anyone can point me to howtos and compatabilities list, I would > appriciate it. Like what tools to and and how to partition the disk. I get you must do partitioning correctly, you must NOT create linux partitions with apple tools: http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.shtml or http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.txt > my x86 and PPC CDs hopefuly real son so I can learn debian. SuSE sucked, > because I paid $50 and found outit had a bad boot loader, and I have had Red > Hat from 4.2 to 7.0-respin on x86 and now 7.1 or Mandrake 8.0 don't work I > get IRC timouts, but who cares, Debian is what I use in college. And I hear > WONDERFUL things about debian...get a cd and apt-get for life! :-) > > Long live Debian, the chice of a GNU Generation. > > Patrick > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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