"Russell Hyer" <rnh2@ukc.ac.uk> wrote:
> NetBSD people,
> 
> I realise that my PowerBook 1400 - 603 PPC archictecture isn't yet,
> formally, supported by NetBSD.  And I've been trying to install a *nix on
> this machine for a while now.  My initial problem is with the ugly RH
> installer which seems to require far too much RAM, as such, before I get
> more memory I can't install.  And attempts to install from w/o the
> installer, ie, to mkfs the system (when the hard drive was stripped from the
> computer into a PC didn't work), presumably because mkfs works on the basis
> of a dos partition table.
> 
> Therefore, in your humble opinions, would MkLinux work w/ a DOS partition as
> formatted by disk charmer ?  Or would NetBSD work, because the only primary
> problem is in getting the machine to boot, via the MkLinux extension ?  Or
> is there considerably more work required to go into this that I've
> overlooked.

Use Slackintosh:
http://slackintosh.exploits.org/
It's MUCH more straight-forward, doesn't require a power-house
machine, and is very stable.

Charlie