Installing ubuntu on a Mac SE

[David McMillan]

Thank you very much for the info !  I'm pretty allergic to "bullets in
the foot", so I may cease and desist.  I will check out the recommended
sites, though, as I don't want it to do much !

Mc

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 19:28 -0400, F.W. wrote:
> having install Linux on some older macs none quite as old as yours I'm
> going to suggest you shoot yourself in the foot instead it will be
> much less painful 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com>
> wrote:
>         David McMillan wrote:
>         > I am very new to Linux, but have Ubuntu installed on my Dell
>         2400 and am
>         > pleased with it so far.  I would like to try to resurrect my
>         old Mac SE,
>         > for limited use, so that I install a calendar, and possibly
>         some games
>         > for my granddaughter.  It will have to be loaded through a
>         "floppy",
>         > also.  Would like some assistance with what
>         version/kernel/whatever, I
>         > need to do.
>         
>         
>         So you have one of these [0] from the late 1980s? It has a
>         Motorola
>         68000 processor, 1MB of RAM, and perhaps as 20MB hard drive.
>         Installing
>         linux on this is not a simple process. You will probably have
>         to replace
>         the CPU with a 68020 or newer (but not a 68LC040), max the RAM
>         out at
>         4MB, and add a 100mb hard drive before it is even possible.
>         Even once
>         you do that, it will not be useful for much.
>         
>         Ubuntu does not support the M68K architecture. Debian [1] and
>         Gentoo are
>         the only linuxes that do as far as I know. If you search
>         google for "mac
>         se" linux you'll find some installation howtos.
>         
>         [0] http://lowendmac.com/compact/macintosh-se.html
>         [1] http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/
>         
>         -Brian
>         
>         
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