My Power Mac is old. Like, really old. It's one of the old world 250 mb hard disk space Grey ones. What I need to know is if there is a version of Linux I can format my hard drives to. I got some two new 4 gb drives and I'd like to format one to Linux. I already moded the case so that's the easy part. Now, is there a version of linux I can use.
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250 MB hard drive? Is this a 6100/7100/8100 series? If It is one of these, your options are fairly limited. I believe only older versions of Debian and *possibly* NetBSD will run on these systems.
I would look for a 8500 or better, something with PCI slots at at least a 200 mhz CPU. You could then use NetBSD (free from their site), LinuxPPC, or even YellowDog depending on the CPU. Really, when ity comes down to it, beige G3 systems are something like 10-20 bucks in most cases on eBay right now, and those will run OSX which can be considered "BSD-lite that runs Photoshop".
We REALLY need a model number to be of any help. Any PowerMac can run Linux, and any 603 and better system can run one of the BSD flavors. Which can run what is why we need the model number. agentmeow gave a decent list of OSs, but to give you a really good list we need more than just "it's a grey PowerMac"
I didn't have the comp with me when I wrote the post so I couldn't tell you. I was at school see. 6100/60 AV is what it is. It either has OS 7 or 8 at the moment. When I log on it just says Mac Os with no number afterwords. There you guys go. If possible it'd be nice if you could give me a link to the web site.
Ok, that's just what we needed. Try:
http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/
Particularly:
http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/#installers
Where you can get a NuBus PowerMac Linux kernel w/ the installer setup for YDL or Debian. You'll need to get and burn cd images for either one you want, unless you have broadband and want to use Debian. I've yet to install either one on a NuBus PowerMac, but YDL 3.0 on a Beige G3 was pretty nice. If you have/get a G3 card for your 6100, you *MIGHT* be able to run OS X through MOL on it, but I wouldn't get hopes of that too high.
I should be able to download it, but if it is tediously huge (I'm on 28 K internet, then split that in half. Plus the dial signal isn't that good so I usually get 24k, or, over the LAN it's 12. Laugh it up) Well. That should help.