[LUG] iMac

[Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys

I have a G3 iMac - the purple sort although I think Apple called it 
some other colour. I am about to stick it up on ebay. I reckon I might 
get £100! But before I do I wonder whether I can install Debian on it.

The specs are PowerPC G3 333MHz with 160mb Ram and a 6gig H/D. It has a 
CD Rom but no floppy drive.

I currently own a G4 Powerbook and hope shortly to invest in a new G5 
iMac. I would like a Linux machine to act as a back-up for both laptop 
and desktop. It would also run all the php/mysql files that I currently 
run.

Would it be possible to install a larger hard drive (160gig) and run 
Debian on this G3 to act as a backup machine or would I be better off 
flogging the machine for as much as I can get and buying a beige box 
and installing Linux on that!

Rich
www.littlebigfoot.org.uk
"How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the messenger bringing 
good news." Isaiah 52 v 7 (The Message)


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