Re: distro rec for beige g3 & sys reqs.
From: David Harrison (davidis_at_diebots.davidis.diebots.plus.com)
Date: 10/25/04
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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:45:31 +0100
On 10/24/2004 12:56 AM, Ulrich Plate said:
> You'll love it. And don't get me wrong, even the OldWorld-unfriendly CDs
> do the trick, you just need to download BootX from penguinppc.org
> (http://penguinppc.org/projects/bootx/) and follow some extra
> instructions: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1657215#1657215
>
> Everything else is covered in the Gentoo PPC handbook, located at
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml (add ?full=1 to
> that URI if you want the entire handbook in a single HTML page).
>
> Ulrich Plate
Thanks, Ulrich! I had Gentoo running on this x86 box as a hobby project,
and it was really impressive. It'd be nice to run it on a 'spare'
machine that won't need to be taken over by work stuff in Windoze :-)
Thanks for the links; you've made my day.
cheers,
David
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