1337 Apple Zealot's Journal: Installing Debian GNU/Linuix on the Apple II

Some people thought it was impossible, but I did it, I installed Linux on the Apple II. How? First of all, I needed a x86 emulator that ran on the Apple II, so I decided to port the Amiga emultor AST86 to the processor. I soldered around 2Mbs of memory onto a blank cirtuirt board and plugged it in a ISA slot on the Apple ]['s motherboard. Then using a tape player I recorded a 5 minute tape which had the AST86 emulator on it.I then played it through the Turbo loader register on the Motherboard. After taking 2 minutes to load I got to the AST86 menu, where I attatched a 40Gb disk using a 5.25" floppy disk shapped dongle that had a IDE controller on it. The Hard disk had a version of Debian Installed. I attached a VGA Graphics card into another ISA slot with a USB port on another. Then I selected the Debian image from the boot menu. It was then they moment of truth, the LILO screen came up, and loaded kernel 2.4.23 from the disk, and after five minutes it was starting at my KDE desktop that was running on the Apple II! From the /proc/cpuinfo

Processor : MOS 65C02 1.0 Mhz (AST86 Emulating 386-SX)

Doing a uname -a does shows this
Linux apple2box 2.4.23-ast86 #1 SMP Fr OCT 31 17:55:45 CEST 2003 65C02 GNU/Linux

And, I am even typing this right now from my Apple II box. Its so cool I could cry. Has anyone else managed to do this incredible feet of geekdom?

Tips.

[juuri]

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also, try including the random related piece of trash news from any of the indymedia sites, thats sure to get some of the reactionary idiots to defend you no matter what you say.

This is fucking awesome!

[jhunsake]

Can you write up a nice how-to? I can't wait to do this!