Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:40:38 +0100 | From | Dominik Kubla <> | Subject | Re: Linux and RS/6000 250 |
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:28:47PM +0100, Jochen Friedrich wrote: > Hi Sven, > > > 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. > > I own a couple of them and currently run AIX 4.3.3 on all of them. > However, i heared, that the support from IBM is to be discontinued next > year and i would ^love^to run Linux on them if at all possible :-)
Add a 350 from me. But the problem is not just the PPC/MCA combination, but also the CPU. It's Power, not PowerPC!
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