On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 22:25 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > 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. -- dwmw2 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
