On 09-10-28 18:24:49, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 06:17:31PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> >Sorry to bug developers, but I didn't get any bites from PPC
> >users on fedora-list.
> >
> >Does Fedora PPC work or install on oldworld PCI Macs, such as
> >a beige G3 desktop? My impression is that no one has tried it
> >on an oldworld
>
>
> No, it doesn't. The ppc specific release notes cover that here:
>
>
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/
> index.html#sect-Release_Notes-Hardware_Requirements
I'd looked at the release notes. They says "Minimum CPU: PowerPC
G3..." and "Although Old World machines should work, they require a
special bootloader which is not included in the Fedora distribution."
My question is whether anyone has tried it in any recent Fedora
release and knows whether "should" means "do" or
"don't".
(FWIW, the special bootloader is BootX, and Debian Lenny is installing
now, so /some/ form of Linux works. I just don't know anything but
hearsay about Debian. I see it uses "apt".)
I don't know of anyone who's tried it recently, but in the past we've
fixed things in the kernel to make it work properly on OldWorld Macs and
it _has_ been known to work fine.
It _ought_ to work if you sort out the bootloader.
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