On 09-10-28 15:02:25, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Tony Nelson
<tonynelson(a)georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> No. I saw nothing that indicated support for oldworld Macs -- "if
> you can persuade them to boot they probably ought to work" shows
> they haven't been tried and that I would have a hard time in any
> case, and on
PenguinPPC.org, I found a table [2] saying only
> newworld for Fedora.
Ah sorry, I completely missed the new/old world distinction;
Aha! It's the only reason to think Fedora wouldn't work.
thanks for the pointers.
You're welcome.
> Now back to my question. Have /you/ installed a recent Fedora
on
> an oldworld PCI Mac? Or do you know of anyone who has?
I don't owe any Mac hardware (I'd probably add "unfortunately"...),
I stopped buying Macs 10 years ago, when NeXT took over Apple and
replaced MacOS with NextStep, calling it MacOSX, so I can't agree.
but I think there are developers with different kind of PPC macs
around in fedora-devel.
I'll bug them instead.
However, from the wiki link you gave, I also suspect there could be
no significant userbase among them for those oldworld macs, otherwise
the text would be more encouraging.
It's 10 years old! Two years older than my PC. I just don't need it
much as a Mac anymore.
On the flip side, it looks like the wiki page is quite old, and the
text seems to indicate the real problem is how to start the
installation (yes, this is entirely my own speculation...) so at
least you have some pointers to work on...
Yes. Clearly I'll start with Debian, which claims to work and has more
instructions, and if it boots the installer I might possibly try
Fedora.
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