Install Linux on my Performa 6400

[markyb86]

Don't know if any of these will help?

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

http://karkuta.drivehq.com/

http://www.puppylinux.org

 

[beachycove]

NetBSD might be the best supported and easiest installation. Ignore the older how tos and read the installstion docs that come with the latest distro.

I think I can likely come up with more than 32mb for you, btw. What do you have now? Two 16mb dimms?

 

[jamie marchant]

I don't know, it actually cam with the Ram second hand, I might be able to figure it out if I opened it up. I also read somewhere that you can make your own ram disk from inside an installer. I will have to see if I can make one small enough.

 

[jamie marchant]

Puppy Linux is great but I had trouble running on it on an x86 machine with 32 MB of ram, so I don't think it would work well on my Mac(Live CD need a lot of ram), unforchently DSL does not run on PPC .

 

[jamie marchant]

OK I have one 32 MB DIMM and one unlabelled I imagine it's 8 MB since 32 + 8 + 8 = 48 and apparently the 6400 comes with 8 MB of RAM on the motherboard.

 

[jamie marchant]

Thanks too TylerEss for selling me some Ram. I now have Linux working on my Mac!