[wplug] m68k or powerpc?

mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu
Fri Aug 3 00:48:11 EDT 2001


Sounds PowerPC to me -- m68k is for the Motorola 68000-series
(68040 and higher, IIRC, had MMU's) and you say your machine
is a PPC 6100 ...

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 08:03:40PM -0700, Brad Hoover wrote:
> Hello friends,
> 
> As some of you might have noticed, during the last
> installfest Gordon and I tried to get mklinux working
> on old hardware I have -- a Apple PPC 6100/60, which
> is a nubus system.  We were unable to get mklinux to
> run on it due to bugs in mklinux (I think).  So Gordon
> suggested I try Debian as an alternative.  The 
> question is, should I use the m68k or powerpc port? 
> I've searched around debian.org and have been unable
> to find a hardware list of any sort.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
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