Distro for Power Mac 7500/100

[KertDawg]

Hello.

I'm looking for a distribution to run on a Power Macintosh 7500/100. I
installed a new hard disk drive in this computer, so it now has about
9GB.

I tried the YellowDog distribution, but it seems that it's detecting
the HDD geometry as being different that what BIOS tells it. I don't
know much about Macs, so I'm not sure of what to do. If I install YDL
(3.0.1), it gets about 95% done, then freezes. I assume this has to do
witht he geometry problem.

What distribution would you recommend for this machine?

Thanks for any replies,

- Kertis

[David Cantrell]

Post by KertDawg
Hello.
I'm looking for a distribution to run on a Power Macintosh 7500/100. I
installed a new hard disk drive in this computer, so it now has about
9GB.
I tried the YellowDog distribution, but it seems that it's detecting
the HDD geometry as being different that what BIOS tells it. I don't
know much about Macs, so I'm not sure of what to do. If I install YDL
(3.0.1), it gets about 95% done, then freezes. I assume this has to do
witht he geometry problem.
What distribution would you recommend for this machine?
Thanks for any replies,

This is a well known problem on 7x00 Power Macs:

http://www.jonh.net/lppcfom-serve/cache/681.html

Set your hard disk for an ID other than zero and you should be good to
go. FYI, macs don't have PC-like BIOS.

[KertDawg]

Post by David Cantrell
http://www.jonh.net/lppcfom-serve/cache/681.html
Set your hard disk for an ID other than zero and you should be good to
go. FYI, macs don't have PC-like BIOS.

Thanks. I'll check that out.

However, the installation error message actually uses the word "BIOS."
I thought that was strange, and now I know it's wrong. Thanks for the
tip.

- Kertis

[David Cantrell]

Post by KertDawg

Post by David Cantrell
http://www.jonh.net/lppcfom-serve/cache/681.html
Set your hard disk for an ID other than zero and you should be good

to

Post by David Cantrell
go. FYI, macs don't have PC-like BIOS.

Thanks. I'll check that out.
However, the installation error message actually uses the word "BIOS."
I thought that was strange, and now I know it's wrong. Thanks for the
tip.

YellowDog is essentially a rebuild of Red Hat on PowerPC. They change
Red Hat to YellowDog throughout, add some unique things, but keep most
stuff the same. Looks like the error trap fell through and spit out
text that was PC specific.

[Nearly Normal Jimmy]

Post by KertDawg
Hello.
I'm looking for a distribution to run on a Power Macintosh 7500/100. I
installed a new hard disk drive in this computer, so it now has about
9GB.
I tried the YellowDog distribution, but it seems that it's detecting
the HDD geometry as being different that what BIOS tells it. I don't
know much about Macs, so I'm not sure of what to do. If I install YDL
(3.0.1), it gets about 95% done, then freezes. I assume this has to do
witht he geometry problem.
What distribution would you recommend for this machine?
Thanks for any replies,
- Kertis

i had YDL 2.2 on my 7500/100 for quite awhile just as a first try at
linux. everything went smoothly, no problems.

now i'm expecting some of those free Ubuntu discs in the mail, gonna
see if that will work. In the meantime i've upgraded the 7500 with a
faster Ultra SCSI drive and the vid card from my Blue and White G3.
hope it works.