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Oops, yeah, good call there. There might be Powerbook Linux boot floppy, though NetBSD might be a better choice. The CPU appears to be a 68LC040: <https://sup
by dredmorbius 2y ago
Oops, yeah, good call there.
There might be Powerbook Linux boot floppy, though NetBSD might be a better choice. The CPU appears to be a 68LC040: <https://support.apple.com/en-us/112137 https://support.apple.com/en-us/112137>
A NetBSD install guide which seems to have worked for someone in 2012: <https://web.archive.org/web/20120602135739/http://www.macunix.net/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120602135739/http://www.macuni...>
(Site is now SEO scambait.)
NetBSD docs: <https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/ https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/>
- oneplane 2y agoLooking at the reporting, it does seem like the 68LC040 emulation at least worked (just slightly buggy), which is much better than the not-booting Linux of the same era. I should probably not be surprised to see NetBSD run on yet another thing ;-) I wonder what has been ported to more hardware at this point: NetBSD or bare metal Doom.
- dredmorbius 2y agoSome years back I seem to recall Debian making the claim to support more hardware (if not necessarily the same hardware) as NetBSD. I cannot verify this presently however....