On 09-10-28 15:02:25, Gianluca Sforna wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Tony Nelson > <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > No. I saw nothing that indicated support for oldworld Macs -- "if > > you can persuade them to boot they probably ought to work" shows > > they haven't been tried and that I would have a hard time in any > > case, and on PenguinPPC.org, I found a table [2] saying only > > newworld for Fedora. > > Ah sorry, I completely missed the new/old world distinction; Aha! It's the only reason to think Fedora wouldn't work. > thanks for the pointers. You're welcome. > > Now back to my question. Have /you/ installed a recent Fedora on > > an oldworld PCI Mac? Or do you know of anyone who has? > > I don't owe any Mac hardware (I'd probably add "unfortunately"...), I stopped buying Macs 10 years ago, when NeXT took over Apple and replaced MacOS with NextStep, calling it MacOSX, so I can't agree. > but I think there are developers with different kind of PPC macs > around in fedora-devel. I'll bug them instead. > However, from the wiki link you gave, I also suspect there could be > no significant userbase among them for those oldworld macs, otherwise > the text would be more encouraging. It's 10 years old! Two years older than my PC. I just don't need it much as a Mac anymore. > On the flip side, it looks like the wiki page is quite old, and the > text seems to indicate the real problem is how to start the > installation (yes, this is entirely my own speculation...) so at > least you have some pointers to work on... Yes. Clearly I'll start with Debian, which claims to work and has more instructions, and if it boots the installer I might possibly try Fedora. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
