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PPC minimum requirements
Name: Cliff Date: September 16, 2002 at 09:06:43 Pacific OS: BeOS 5 Pro CPU/Ram: Unknown
Comment:
Does anyone know what the requirements to run on a PPC are or where there maybe a webpage with the requirements listed? My friend is interested in putting BeOS on an older PPC his father gave him after their office upgraded computers.
Name: Ray Date: September 16, 2002 at 12:49:22 Pacific
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Processor 604e works(not 604ev) 601 will NOT work. Some 603 MAY work. Install on one of the following "for sures": 9500 8500 7600 7300 A Newtech G3 daughtercard on one of the above MAY work but not a "for sure". Re PC: Do not try to install BeOS on an Athlon XP. It can be done (in fact this is a Athlon XP 1800+ and I have BeOs 4.5 and 5.0 running on it, but it is a horror story with patches to the kernal.) But it sure does rock!
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Response Number 2
Name: jefro Date: September 16, 2002 at 13:32:21 Pacific
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The Gobe.com site still has what Be listed for it's HCL. Frizbe.net has users opinions. I haven't heard of a way to install other than using the pro edition.
Ebay had a quad processor mac clone for something like $350 and it was already dual booted into beos and some other system.
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Response Number 3
Name: Cliff Date: September 19, 2002 at 06:09:36 Pacific
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Found out from my friend that his PPC has the processor that will not work ... thanks anyway! :)
Cheers, ~Cliff
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Response Number 4
Name: jefro Date: September 19, 2002 at 14:55:17 Pacific
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I just read the comment about don't put on an AMD.
Pshawww. Read wiki.bebits.com
Options 2 or 3 are much more difficult to read than to do. The old way was the option 1 Might just take that out now.
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