Hi Doug,

On Thursday 22 February 2001 10:22, you wrote:

> > Hi,
>
>      I am planning to attend your installfest in March and have a
>  couple of questions.  I have an older Power PC I would like to install
>  Linux on, Is this something that I can get help with at the fest?

Sure - but which distribution do you plan to install? Decide this, and bring 
a copy of it because I doubt that anyone will have a PPC distro along without 
knowing ahead of time. I'd be happy to d/l whatever you like and burn a CD if 
this presents a problem for you. Let me know soon.

The two PPC distros of which I am aware are:

	1) Debian
	2) Yellow Dog

I'm not sure what the status is of Yellow Dog, but Debian is a mature and 
well-supported distribution. I've never used the PPC version of either, but I 
*do* have m68k Debian on two of my older Macs. 

  I
>  also have a PC with a IDE RAID controller on it (ABIT KT7-RAID), would
>  this present a problem with installation? 

No problem. I own that very board and all is well... setting up and booting 
from the IDE raid (if that is your intent) is more of a BIOS matter than a 
Linux matter... the HPT370 controller chip on the KT-7 RAID is supported in 
2.4 kernels, and may be as well in the latter 2.2 series.

See you there!

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