On 18 Jul 2003, Mike Hicks wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 12:20, Jima wrote:
> > Oooo, that'd be one of the one-piece systems, wouldn't it? Nice little
> > machines. (Anyone remember THAT argument? ;)
> > What would you like to put on it? We ought to have Debian, Yellow Dog,
> > and -- this just in -- Mandrake. (I hadn't realized they'd released 9.1
> > for PPC, too. Impressive.) I can't speak for Mandrake, but the 5400
> > appears to be supported on Debian & YDL. Probably is under Mandrake, I'm
> > just not seeing an official page stating as much.
>
> Hmm, they don't seem to list much in the way of system requirements on
> their site. I seem to recall that the x86 installer from a few years
> back needed a fair amount of RAM to work properly, but I may be
> mistaken, and I don't know if that would translate to the PPC side of
> things.
Huh, good point. I seem to recall having trouble with the YDL 2.2
installer with low RAM -- something like 32 or 48mb. I would guess that
Debian might be a little less...picky.
Off to the installfest!
Jima
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