Re: Oldworld Mac Support

Joseph Jezak <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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[email protected] wrote:
| Does anyone have experience with the following models?
|
| PMac 7100/66 (nubus)

This will only run with a nubus kernel and isn't really supported at all
by Gentoo.  Since (as far as I know) the nubus kernel hasn't been ported
to 2.6, you will have problems running this with a Gentoo setup.  If
you're still interested, take a look at the nubus kernel's project page:
http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/

| Performa 4400/200 (IDE disk and CDRom)
| Performa 6400  (IDE Disk SCSI CDRom and Disk)
These are old-world 603e, they should work, although there may be some
difficulty getting them to boot.

| Most machines have 128MB of ram and 8GB or more disk space.
|
| I realize add in cards also have support issues but am trying to
decide which machines and the order to load them -- easiest first would
be wise for this Gentoo newbie.

All of these machines are going to be a little more difficult to install
than a new world machine due to booting difficulty.  Either of the
603e's would be best to start with though.

Good luck!
- -Joe
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