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Started by Mr Sam Spamless
Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00
Linux on a 6200/75, 64megs??
Author: Mr Sam Spamless
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00
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Dear Guys (email address below) I have decided to take the plunge and install this OS I have been hearing so much about over the last 2-3 years from mates who rave about it like I rave about the Mac OS ;). At this stage I am figuring on partitioning One of My External; HD's to take a 1 gig slice for Linux. However I run a 6200/75 with 64 megs of real ram which runs OS 8.6 quite nicely, however I have no idea what is an appropiate Linux system for my machine (like I would never try running OS9 on this machine). I would greatly appreciate your opinions on what compilation of Linux I should run and An appropiate url if its not blatently obvious where I can pick up that compilation...... Bear in mind I have been running this machine for at least 2 years and so am use to moderately slow computing so if you think a compilation may be to slow for my machine try to imagine what it is like running 8.6 on this machine when advising me of your opinion Look forward to your constructive replies, TIA. Spamless rlw-nospam-mgt@zip.com.au (remove obvious for replies) (Melodius on #macintosh oz.org)
Re: Linux on a 6200/75, 64megs??
Author: Matthew Sheppard
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00
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> However I run a 6200/75 with 64 megs of real ram which runs OS 8.6 quite > nicely, however I have no idea what is an appropiate Linux system for my > machine (like I would never try running OS9 on this machine). > ... > Look forward to your constructive replies, TIA. Wish I could bring better news... Unfortunatly, there's no version of Linux which will run on the 6200...I know because I have one (well, a 6300 actually, but it's the same board)...and it doesn't look like there will be, at least any time soon...the LinuxPPC kernel will only run on PCI or newer machines. MkLinux was working towards supporting the early power performas, but have pretty much come to a halt these days. My solution to this was to pick up a second hand Mac clone (Starmax 3000), which was rather cheep since it's more or less been orphaned by apple, but being a PCI machine, runs LinuxPPC happily. Matt ------------------------------------------------------ | Matthew Sheppard <http://www.metropolis.net.au/mds> | "A life is not important, except that it has influence on other lives"
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