Hi Doug,
On Thursday 22 February 2001 10:22, you wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> I am planning to attend your installfest in March and have a
> couple of questions. I have an older Power PC I would like to install
> Linux on, Is this something that I can get help with at the fest?
Sure - but which distribution do you plan to install? Decide this, and bring
a copy of it because I doubt that anyone will have a PPC distro along without
knowing ahead of time. I'd be happy to d/l whatever you like and burn a CD if
this presents a problem for you. Let me know soon.
The two PPC distros of which I am aware are:
1) Debian
2) Yellow Dog
I'm not sure what the status is of Yellow Dog, but Debian is a mature and
well-supported distribution. I've never used the PPC version of either, but I
*do* have m68k Debian on two of my older Macs.
I
> also have a PC with a IDE RAID controller on it (ABIT KT7-RAID), would
> this present a problem with installation?
No problem. I own that very board and all is well... setting up and booting
from the IDE raid (if that is your intent) is more of a BIOS matter than a
Linux matter... the HPT370 controller chip on the KT-7 RAID is supported in
2.4 kernels, and may be as well in the latter 2.2 series.
See you there!
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