[Pc_Support] Need a MAC hardware garu!

patrick pberry2 at cfl.rr.com
Mon Oct 23 17:42:03 EDT 2006


Damien McKenna wrote:
> On Oct 23, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Homer Whittaker wrote:
>> I understand that the Mac has a program that will allow them to use 
>> Windows XX.
>
> VirtualPC, currently owned by Microsoft.  It comes bundled with Office 
> for Mac.
>
>> The main problem at hand is the his Mac will not read his SCSI hard 
>> drive, and it will not read the Western Digital IDE drives I have put 
>> on it either.  So:
>
> What sort of Mac is it, is it worth keeping it when you've having so 
> many problems?
>
>> 2.  If it can be repaired, then how do I go about installing Debian 
>> on the Mac.
>
> Download the ISOs for a PPC-based distribution and rtfm :-)
>
> --Damien McKenna, husband, father, geek.
> damien at mc-kenna.com - http://www.mc-kenna.com/
>
>
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My starting point for any upload of Linux is to have the system working 
first.  I can do that.  In Mac OS,
Then, it will run quickest, for the hardware design included that OS...

then we can play with Linux!



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