Would a Powermac 7600 be a good gentoo box?

rasmus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Jul 2002 Posts: 78

Hi, all

I'm a bit tired of my buggy 7200 and think about upgrading to something a little bit better. I have the opportunity to buy a 7600 with 160 MB ram dirt cheap, which suits me well. 604 cpu on an easily switchable daughtercard makes g3/g4 upgrades so much easier the day I can afford it and OF video.

Any caveats? Am I likely to run into any major problems?

asph · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 9:41 am Post subject:

sure you can install gentoo on the powermac 7660!

You can find the livecd here and the install guide here.

good luck

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bahkyp · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 10:15 pm Post subject:

Execpt the liveCD will not boot the 7600 (I have a 7600/132) you must fiddle around with BootX and the ramdisk.

Also the hard drive space at 2G is a little small if you don't increase it. 4G will work but +6G is what I'ld recomend (2 + 4) as you can have a large swap and keep all your distfiles. But you can kull the 7220 for that.
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