On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 4:29 AM, wwp subscript@free.fr wrote:
Hello there,
complete off-topic, sorry about this, but my former idea was to install a CentOS on an old mac mini (PPC!). Disappointed to see that PowerPC is not a supported architecture and that non ARM or Intel architecture are not managed by recent distros.. :-(.
Yeah, PPC - your options are limited.
http://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=All&origin=All...
A number of years back I saved an XServe G4 from the trash and kept it until the fans drove me crazy! ;-) I used Finnix [http://www.finnix.org/] as a LiveCD/rescue environment. I believe I installed Debian on it at the time and can't recall any problems with bootloader installation.
For me PPC wasn't worth the hassle (or the XServe noise!).
Searching the web, I see very few possibilities to install a recent (I need gnome2) GNU/Linux distro on such hardware. I gave Linux MintPPC 11 (http://www.mintppc.org/content/list-macs) a try, but the netinstall iso simply fails in installing a boot loader that conserves the original OS/X partition even after many tries and workarounds.
Any hint or experience would be welcome?
Might try Debian (even the netinstall as well) just to see if it will install successfully?
Regards,
-- wwp
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