~On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, James Zuelow wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Jacob Gemmell wrote: > > > > > > Any ideas for presntations? If you can bring in a distro, I have a Power > > Macintosh G3 that needs a decent OS. I haven't been able to boot off a CD > > yet. Maybe you can give me a hand. Its one if those all in one > > monstrosites with the integrated monitor. > > It is a G3? Like a 5x00 with a G3 upgrade, or an iMac? There is a big > difference between the beige PowerMacs and the candy colored ones. > > I'll bring my PowerPC kit - I've got a CD for partitioning the drive, > installing 7.5.3/5, and Debian's 3.0 PowerPC CD. > > If it is an iMac, it probably won't install 7.5.3. We'll see if we can't > boot Debian, and I'll bring along OpenBSD 3.2 just in case as that CD is > bootable on candy colored Macs. > > If it is a beige all in one, it will probably take 7.5.3 - which is good, > since Apple gives away 7.5.3 at no charge on their ftp site. The beige > Macs like to have a minimal Mac OS install to boot into Linux. > > Cheers, > > James > It is a beige gray one. Here is a link to a picture http://www.electronic-school.com/oldart/199806/0698gear5.gif Its a All-in-one. It does have os 9.1 installed on it. -- evilbob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't. ------------------------------------ This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject header.