From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3828F478.3D2CD022@erols.com> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 23:28:41 -0500 From: Doomsday Machine Reply-To: pogtal@erols.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David A. Gatwood" CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: OffTopic: Is the PowerBook 145d anygood? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: "David A. Gatwood" wrote: > On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Doomsday Machine wrote: > > > Well, besides it being completely off topic, the 145b is seriously > > outdated. It's fine for wordprocessing (I guess) but not much else. I > > guess if you really wanted to, you could probably load mklinux on it, > > Umm... MkLinux only works on PPC machines. That's a 68k. Can run NetBSD, > though. Didn't they have a version of mklinux for 68k? Or maybe that was a link to the linux/68k project...oh well, it's been a while since I ran mklinux on my 8500 :) > > > > but that would be some work, cause it doesn't have a cdrom, and I don't > > know if it can get ethernet hookups. > > Not unless you happen to find one of the old Cabletron Ethernet to SCSI > adapters. Asante's aren't supported under *BSD for usual corporate > reasons. Yeah. I suppose if you purchased the 145b, you could take out a serial port, hardwire an ethernet port to it, write your own drivers...;-) --Nelson Abramson -- "Switch on any television channel and you have entered immediately the world of demigods and hungry ghosts." --Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/