Re: Debian on PPC

2009-11-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 09:10:58PM -0800, Mark wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:09:42PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > I'm very unfamiliar w/ the PPC architecture, but a friend has a laptop > > he'd like me to install a Linux distro onto. Debian offers a powerpc > > version on the downloads page.

Re: Debian on PPC

2009-11-15 Thread Mark
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:09:42PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > I'm very unfamiliar w/ the PPC architecture, but a friend has a laptop > he'd like me to install a Linux distro onto. Debian offers a powerpc > version on the downloads page. Can I expect this to contain all the > same packages as the i

Re: Debian on PPC

2009-11-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:09:42PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > I'm very unfamiliar w/ the PPC architecture, but a friend has a laptop > he'd like me to install a Linux distro onto. Debian offers a powerpc > version on the downloads page. Can I expect this to contain all the > same packages as the i

Debian on PPC

2009-11-15 Thread Rob Owens
I'm very unfamiliar w/ the PPC architecture, but a friend has a laptop he'd like me to install a Linux distro onto. Debian offers a powerpc version on the downloads page. Can I expect this to contain all the same packages as the i386 version? Are there any other distros I should investigate for

debian on ppc with apple flat screen

2004-05-14 Thread Kevin Murphy
Has anyone successfully installed debian testing on something like this: Apple G4 Apple Cinema Display (22 in this case, I think) NVidia GeForce2 In particular, I'm looking for a working XF86Config file. The PPC beta4 net-install nominally worked, once I had used YellowDog Linux to get the parti

Re: installing debian on ppc

2001-12-09 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Wicher W.O. Deddens wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian on a PPC 8500/150, 96 Mb, 2 Gb HD for > Webserving and Mailserving purposes. I downloaded CD1 for PowerPC, wrote > it to a > bootable disk, made a boot floppy and a root.bin floppy, made partitions > according the

Re: installing debian on ppc

2001-12-06 Thread Anthony Lau
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:50:59AM +0100, Wicher W.O. Deddens wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian on a PPC 8500/150, 96 Mb, 2 Gb HD for > Webserving and Mailserving purposes. I downloaded CD1 for PowerPC, wrote > it to a > bootable disk, made a boot floppy and a root.bin floppy, made partitions

installing debian on ppc

2001-12-06 Thread Wicher W.O. Deddens
I'm trying to install Debian on a PPC 8500/150, 96 Mb, 2 Gb HD for Webserving and Mailserving purposes. I downloaded CD1 for PowerPC, wrote it to a bootable disk, made a boot floppy and a root.bin floppy, made partitions according the example in the manual: a 500 mb other system (MacOS 8.1, but no