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Re: Linux PowerPC on a very old PowerBook G4 1 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM & 60 GB HDD?

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On 1/25/2015 12:02 PM, Stephen Harker wrote:
> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> writes:
>
>> On 1/24/2015 6:42 AM, playforvoices wrote:
>>
>>>> ...
>>>>> But after trying Debian and MorphOS I finaly go back to OSX 10.5. Take
>>>>> iCab for Internet, Powermail for Mail, LimeChat for IRC and for security
>>>>> I use RootKitHunter OSX (scan for security breaches).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. I guess I will try all of them to pick the best. Or keep all as
>>>> multiple boots and partitions. Heh!
>>>
>>> I have forget to say something about MintPPC. It's also a good Distro based
>>> on Debian 7. On board they have special drivers for PPC Macs and some "Mint
>>> Tools". Give them also a try. Please let me know what your final way is. ;)
>>>
>>
>> So, we currently have:
>>
>> Debian PPC (updated)
>> MintPPC (updated)
>> MorphOS (Amiga, not Linux; updated)
>> Fedora v16-17 (old)
>
> I did see posts from someone who said that he had upgraded a powermac to
> fedora 21, but don't know how heroic an effort this was.  I think the
> community releases past 17 were for power64 and apparently up to 21
> would work on a G5.  There were builds of the packages for power32 or
> some such.  Not something I would recommend.
>
>> Yellow Dog Linux (old)
>
> YDL 6.2 was built on Centos5.  You can build the Centos 5 update
> packages yourself and update YDL.  Again, not something I would
> recommend.
>
> I looked at some of the web sites in my previous post.  These are not
> distributions I know much about.
>
> Crux: http://cruxppc.org/ (community build, may be moribund).
>
> Gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PPC/FAQ (seems to have recent
> information).
>
> Ubuntu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPC (updated, community builds).

I finally found free time to play this with since I am currently 
unemployed. I ran into an issue with my favorite distribution, Debian. I 
downloaded and burned its debian-8.7.1-powerpc-netinst (going to use a 
network cable) onto an old 650 MB CD-RW. It booted up fine until 
something about firmware (skipped it for now) the disk management part. 
I could not find a way to make it small/big enough for a dual boot set 
up since I wanted to keep my Mac OS X v10.2.8 (also has Classic 9 in it) 
intact just in case. It is in the 60 GB HDD (actually 55.88 GB with 
about 26 GB free according to Mac OS X v10.2.8). I told it to try 20 and 
10 GB sizes, but no go (too small, huh?). What's the smallest size I can 
use? https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch03s04.html.en says 
I need a minimum of 10 GB, but I tried that.

If not, then what about the other distributions?

Thank you in advance. :)
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Linux PowerPC on a very old PowerBook G4 1 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-18 14:12 -0800
  Re: Linux PowerPC on a very old PowerBook G4 1 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM? Stephen Harker <sjharker@netspace.net.au> - 2015-01-19 17:43 +1100
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  Re: Linux PowerPC on a very old PowerBook G4 1 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM? playforvoices <play_useirc@posteo.jp> - 2015-01-22 15:59 +0000
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