oldworld macs [Was: WARTY review]

[Tommy Trussell]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:38:48 +0000, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 17:34 -0500, volvoguy wrote:
> 
> > Wouldn't my Apple Powermac 6100 be considered an oldworld Mac? The
> > "Command + C" thing allows me to boot from the CD drive, as it does on
> > my slightly newer G3 iMac.
> 
> The 6100 is certainly an oldworld Mac. These machines can boot off CD,
> but to do so requires the CD to contain large amounts of code - and at
> the moment, all of that code is copyright Apple and not available under
> a free license.

One other important thing about your 6100 is that it's not PCI -- it
uses an older system bus called NuBus -- and I believe you cannot use
a stock Debian or Ubuntu kernel with it. There are kernels you can
use, and once you get them installed you can bring in the standard
Debian or Ubuntu packages to get you.... uh ... a 60 or 66 Mhz linux
"screamer." ;-)

(I realize that if you still use the machine you may have put an
"accelerator" in it so you will want to check with that vendor to see
if they can supply whatever driver or kernel prompts you might need
for it to support linux.)