Subject: OT: 68k Linux (was Re: Polling SCSI bus)
From: Nathan A. McQuillen (nm@steaky.dhs.org)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 16:31:37 MST
Nope -- it's just a Debian build for m68k processors with MMUs, from '020
with PMMU added on up. It runs, with various bootloaders, on Mac, Amiga,
Atari and embedded 68k machines. I've got it running on a mangled Quadra
800 at http://steaky.dhs.org/quagga/ and (as documented on that page)
intend to configure a variety of older Mac hardware with Deb-m68k for
donation to worthy homes. More info at:
http://people.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/potato/
about the current (Potato) Debian release for 68k, and at
http://www.linux-m68k.org/dists.html
about the various Linuxes available for 68k machines.
I'm getting a Powerbook 540c tonight and have unholy designs on it...
Tiny logic board with full 040, 500meg 2.5" scsi drive, flat panel
display, builtin Sonic ethernet... Gonna build me a Linux box in a picture
frame and hang it on the wall... :) If I can find a PC card cage for the
bugger I might even be able to make it wireless (although I suspect PC
card support in those machines is... how you say... unsupported?)
- N2
PS - Speaking of unsupported, there's also some sort of way to run YDL on
the MkLinux kernel -- going to try it sometime with my stack of 6100s.
Can't find my 1.2 ISO, though, and haven't been able to locate one
online...
> Oh my gosh. Without doing any research ... is that 68k debian dist a
> mangling of mkLinux?
>
> Wow.
>
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