[sane-devel] SCSI issues persist: open to suggestions

paul beard paulbeard@mac.com
Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:29:48 -0800


 
> Theodore Kilgore wrote:
> 
>> Paul,
>>
>> If you are interested in installing a Linux distro, it is probably
>> possible (if you have disk space) to download the distro onto your hard
>> drive and install from there. Naturally, for this you need adequate space
>> on the hard drive. I have very little experience  installing on Power PC
>> architecture, except for some old StarMax machines at work, which have
>> given me a lot of trouble about the installation because they are "old
>> world" machines and because of my relative inexperience with the mac
>> hardware platform, but I would suspect that what I suggest is surely
>> possible. I do it all the time on i-386 architecture.
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> 
> 
> I have plenty of experience, I'm just disenchanted with the distros I've 
> used so far. LinuxPPC was not very good at all, Yellow Dog was better, 
> but still not all that happy.
> 
> NetBSD beats them hollow, which is why I'm reluctant to go back.
> 
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