Linux on an iMac (PPC)

lennytiger · Aug 10, 2005

I've read it's possible... just need to download the PPC iso for the particular distro... but... does it work!?

I have an old blueberry my mom used to use so i'm wondering how possible this is?! I can then use the DVD player from the iMac in my room and it's silent so it could run 24/7 and possibly fold using the linux client, what you guys think?

Suicide Al · Aug 10, 2005

yes it works rather well. i know many people at my school who have done it and never looked back.

MadSkillzMan · Aug 12, 2005

blueberry? ouch thats old...anyways, hold CONTROL C and itll boot to CD

DJ_Max · Aug 13, 2005

It works a lot better then I thought. I'm using Ubuntu on my iMac G3 DV. It's works like a charm.

What distro did you download?

FoxBat · Aug 23, 2005

This does not directly relate, but...

Four years ago a friend gave me a cd of Redhat (4.1 I think) for PPC, so I figured I would expand my horizons and check it out. Thankfully I read the documentation first and discovered the distro did not yet have USB support - not good for an iMac!

I'm sure all the newer ones will have USB support now, but at the time it was quite a dissapointment - though not as much as it would have been if I had just installed and tried it! Lol.

MadSkillzMan · Aug 23, 2005

four years ago? im pretty sure they fixed it now, i did mess with a RH distro awhile ago on a server board, and the USB mouse worked fine

lennytiger · Aug 23, 2005

DJ_Max said:
It works a lot better then I thought. I'm using Ubuntu on my iMac G3 DV. It's works like a charm.

What distro did you download?

How easy is Ubuntu to set up?

lennytiger · Aug 23, 2005

How's your DVD player support and everything... I just started downloading the ISO now, should be done tomorrow morning... damn cheap 192k DSL

PhoenixMDM · Aug 23, 2005

I used to have gentoo on my powerbook (15", 1.67ghz). It was very very nice, but touchpad support was bad, and I found out there's no linux ppc radeon drivers that support any accelleration. So, I went back to OSX, and installed portage on top of it.

Keiron's got a G3 running yellowdog unless I'm mistaken. Works great the few times I've used it.

Scott9027 · Aug 23, 2005

lennytiger said:
How easy is Ubuntu to set up?

Ubuntu is very easy to setup, the install is not within a GUI, but it is about as close as you can get. You pretty much just need to follow directions and have a basic knowledge of your hardware.

lennytiger · Aug 24, 2005

well i got so far as multiseat system configuration and it bombed out on me... the network also wasn't configured? Any ideas?

lennytiger · Aug 24, 2005

BTW this is Hoary v 5.04 the latest version... I have no idea with macs or linux so this an absolute grey area for me.

Ubuntu's wiki is out of date... and their basic documentation pages.

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