Re: Re: Oldworld Mac Support

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:36:08 -0500, Carl Hudkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> [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.
> 

I also have it working on an oldword G3 All-in-one (233/4gig/64megs) booting
from a small OS 8.6 paritition with BootX.  While a bit slow, it works
great as a backup
system for me as well.  I even got firefox running (although I don't
run anything else
when using it!)


Chris

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