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DateSun, 25 Nov 2001 10:55:15 +0100
FromDavid Weinehall <>
SubjectRe: Linux and RS/6000 250
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:46:52AM +0100, Sven.Riedel@tu-clausthal.de wrote:
> Hi,
> I've uh "inherited" an elderly RS/6000 250 and wanted to install linux
> on it. Googleing for this machine and linux turns up information that it 
> is not possible. Yet, this information is a tad older (one to two years
> old), so I wondered if anything changed in that regard - 
> apparently PPC in combination with the MCA bus were not supported.

Correct. There has been a project to make these machines work, but I
don't know what happened to it; I haven't heard much of it lately.

For now, I suspect you'll have to stick to AIX.


/David
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