RE: [PLUG] Linux on a Apple Powerbook 150?

["kaze" <kaze@voicenet.com>]

Hmmm, you can't connect a monitor, it doesn't have a NIC.

There is a 28.8 internal modem, can this be cabled as a null modem to
another machine so as to telnet it? How could you even install without any
video? The modem could answer, right, so one could telnet it. (I have this
weird adaptor which goes between the HDI-30 connector and an Iomega Zip; it
has a switch on it which allows the whole laptop to exist basically as an
external (250MB) hard drive on the SCSI bus of another machine.)

Except for continuing to run Mac OS, basically useless?

==> -----Original Message-----
==> From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
==> [mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of gabriel
==> rosenkoetter
==> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 12:23 AM
==> To: PLUG listserv
==> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Linux on a Apple Powerbook 150?
==>
==>
==> On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 12:15:50AM -0400, kaze wrote:
==> > I poked around a while ago and found a bunch of places that
==> say it CAN'T be
==> > done - can Linux be installed onto an Apple Powerbook 150?
==>
==> Well, NetBSD/mac68k will boot on it, but won't use the internal
==> video:
==>
==>   http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/macbsd-docs/machine-status/
==>
==> I'd guess this is one of those situations where Apple won't give out
==> docs and no one's taken the time to reverse engineer what's needed
==> for the video card yet.
==>
==> So, you could run NetBSD on it... but you couldn't do much with it
==> as an actual laptop.
==>
==> --
==> gabriel rosenkoetter
==> gr@eclipsed.net
==>


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