[PLUG] Installing Linux on an old PowerPC

Evan Heidtmann clydefrog at adnap.no-ip.com
Thu Oct 14 17:31:02 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 17:08, Dan Young wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 16:34, Evan Heidtmann wrote:
> > I want to put a light Linux system on these so they can act as clients 
> > to an LTSP system. All I need to do is boot the system and start up
> > "X -indirect servername".
> > 
> > How can I accomplish this? The debian-ppc boot floppies are spit out on 
> > boot.
> 
> A question from Captain Obvious: did you use dd/rawrite/etc. to write
> the boot-floppies images to the disks? Have you tried other disks?

I have used rawrite and dd to write these, but there's a few
combinations of disks, images, and writer that I haven't tried. Thanks
for the link.

Evan





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