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by **V-NTXEB** » Tue, 18 Nov 1997 04:00:00

I just have a question with MKLinux? Does MKLinux support the chip that is
in my Quadra 800, and if so which distributions support it. I have RedHat
4.2 on my PC at home. Can somebody mail me and let me know what kind of
success they have had with different distributions. Thanks

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by **Michael Schmit** » Tue, 18 Nov 1997 04:00:00

> >I just have a question with MKLinux? Does MKLinux support the chip that is

> No Linux for you. Try OpenBSD. The macintosh port might support '040 based
> machines. I think the big hangup some of the *BSD's had with some mac
> hardware is the scsi controllers in the later models. They might have gotten
> past that, though.

Linux/m68k is getting close to support 040 machines now. That still
leaves us
without SCSI support for those machines, though. So I'd say: No Linux
for you, yet.

Michael

by **Christoph Wissi** » Wed, 19 Nov 1997 04:00:00

: I just have a question with MKLinux? Does MKLinux support the chip that is
: in my Quadra 800, and if so which distributions support it. I have RedHat
: 4.2 on my PC at home. Can somebody mail me and let me know what kind of
: success they have had with different distributions. Thanks

As far as I know the Quadra 800 is a 680x0 based Mac. So MkLinux won't
work on this mashine, because MkLinux requires a PowerPC processor.
But m68k Linux is in development. There are some Web pages about that:

http://maclinux.wwaves.com/
http://www.primenet.com/~afritz/linux-mac68k/
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/Linux/m68k/
http://www.clark.net/pub/lawrencc/linux/index.html

(This list is not complete, of course.)

Cheers,

Christoph

by **jose nazar** » Wed, 19 Nov 1997 04:00:00

: I just have a question with MKLinux? Does MKLinux support the chip that is
: in my Quadra 800, and if so which distributions support it. I have RedHat
: 4.2 on my PC at home. Can somebody mail me and let me know what kind of
: success they have had with different distributions. Thanks

mklinux- nope. it's for powermacs only. see www.mklinux.apple.com for info.

see http://www.primenet.com/~afritz/research/macintosh/linux/support/sysr...
to see if you machine is supported for linux/mac68k (the quadra is a 680x0
machine). you should also try the *BSD family for mac/68k

jose nazario

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My Quadra 800 and Linux??

My Quadra 800 and Linux??

My Quadra 800 and Linux??

My Quadra 800 and Linux??

My Quadra 800 and Linux??