Submitted by tasty_bugs on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 15:45
Last evening, I finally got Debian up and running on my iMac G3!
Huge thanks for all the good information you have on this site (can't forget Oswald Kelso as well!), and it only took me about a half hour to tweak the xorg.conf file to get it going...
Submitted by linuxopjemac on Fri, 12/18/2009 - 11:19
Ibook G3 Kubuntu Work in Progress
This a small tutorial on how to install Kubuntu 9.04 on an ibook G3. This is a work in progress, so if you encounter a problem, post it here, may be someone can help.
Submitted by linuxopjemac on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 23:37
I'm very new to ubuntu (and linux in general) but it's been pretty easy to find info all over about how to go about resize your windoze partition to enable a dual boot. It's harder to find this info for macs, especially the PPC versions. Some say it cannot be done, other say only on intel macs running 10.5.
Well after reading some at the following pages, I decided to give it a try.
Submitted by linuxopjemac on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 23:28
Here is a mini walk-through for those interested in openSuse on their Mac. I'm still a babe-in-the-woods, but thought I'd present my findings in a casual manner.
You basically have two choices - download an entire DVD, or do a net-install, where you download about 128mb for the net-install image to boot from, and the installer downloads the rest depending on your choices.
You can go through their choices to pick what to download here:
Submitted by linuxopjemac on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 17:32
I got a PowerMac G4 MDD Dual 1,25 GHz. The Grafic Card is an ATI Radeon 9000 with 64 MB.
In the PowerMac is already Installed a Sonnet Aria Card for Wireless Connection.
Installing Debian Lenny from the Net-Installer takes not more than 30 min.
At the end I have four issues:
Submitted by linuxopjemac on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 16:51
Tip #1. Burn at a speed slow enough for your target machine to handle!
You can avoid this source of frustration by finding your machines rated read-speed, and making sure that you burn it no faster than, and preferable even slower than what your cd or dvd device can handle. This can often happen when you burn an image on your powerbook for example, and intend to install onto your slower iMac. You must find a way to burn slower. Speeds of 1X or 2X are not uncommon, especially if your cdrom has aged, is dusty, etc.
Ibook G3 Kubuntu Work in Progress