Re: Oldworld Mac Support

[email protected] wrote:

> Could not find much about supported oldworld Macs  so --
> 
> Does anyone have experience with the following models?
> 
> PMac 7100/66 (nubus)
> Performa 4400/200 (IDE disk and CDRom)
> Performa 6400  (IDE Disk SCSI CDRom and Disk)
> 
> Most machines have 128MB of ram and 8GB or more disk space.

 I do not have experience with the particular machines you have, but I can
tell you that I have successfully installed Gentoo on a Power Mac 8600
(OldWorld, using BootX, and rather cramped with only 4 GB disk space, 64 MB
RAM) and a dual-G3 (NewWorld, using yaboot, 128 MB RAM, 160 GB HD).  I had
a few snags with both (mostly because, for one reason or another, I was
unable to follow the (current) install guide exactly), but wound up with a
working system in each case.

 I'm typing this from the above-mentioned G3 (which is my fallback machine,
and thus the main one while I convert my Pentium-3 box over to PaX); I'm
very satisfied with it overall.  All the "basics" work, and I'm now working
on "embellishments".  ;)  I hope this is useful or encouraging in some way.

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