Please help me decide on Fedora ( PowerPC G3 )

[vois2]

Hello --

I have a good bit of experience with Linux desktop distributions on the x86 architecture.

Now it is my task to decide on a desktop distro for someone's iMac, 500 MHz PowerPC G3 with 640 MB of RAM.

My initial investigation led me here. I have a few questions:

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(1) Given the more aged processor, which version of a Fedora core desktop distribution would you recommend ?

(2) I would need an installer which is more than clickable -- rather, I would need (my preference) some sort of text installer where I have a great deal of control over partitioning. Is this available?

(3) I would need to be able to install a bootloader which has a lot of online docs or support, so that I can modify that bootloader. How does bootloader for Fedora work in this regard? Easy?

(4) I would need some sort of partition manager "live CD" so that I could shrink the existing OS X partition on the iMac in question, before beginning an install of any Linux distro. What is recommended?

Thanks very much for reading, I hope you can make some recommendations for me to move me forward with Fedora.

vois2
firefighter @ graffiti. n e t

[Dan]

Moved to PPC

Hi guy.

I moved this into the PPC forum for you. I use and love F7, but you can take everything I know about a Powermac G3 ... and comfortably print it on the pull straps of your bunker boots!

In anticipation of success, and positive thinking, here's where to go to get the download started.

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/pub.../Fedora/7/ppc/

Regarding the specifics, somebody who knows more about it than I do should be along directly.

In the mean time ... Keep puttin' the wet stuff on the red stuff!


Dan

[ppesci]

1) F 7 must be fine
2)Anaconda works the same as x86.
3) The bootloader is OpenFirmware, this is yaboot/ybin. You can change yaboot.conf in the /etc/yaboot.conf file, and set to bootloader using ybin. Grub is not used in ppc arch. F 7 must manage this transparently but you must to know how change aat your needs anyway.
4) Use Disk Utilities program that comes with OS X. Work fine but backup your data first. Unfortunately bootcamp is intel OS X only.

HTH