muzscman
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| Linux on an old macbook g4....
has anyone done this before? I know there are versions for ppc hardware but I don't know how well they work or if the wireless will work and all that. we replaced my wifes old macbook with a brand spanking new one and we want to give the kids her old macbook and I'd like them to have linux.
Any tips or tricks would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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Mulberry, FL | Yellow Dog is probably the best choice in PPC Linux distros. |
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Cabal
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I've used Debian on PPC hardware a few times, it works well. I think the only trick I ran into was getting the partitioning right ("auto" took care of the Mac-specific pieces, then I backtracked and recreated my real partitions).
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Ctrl Alt Del
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Do you mean PowerBook G4 (PowerPC) or MacBook (Intel)? I'm assuming PowerBook as you mention PPC in your post. There are plenty of articles talking about installing Linux on PowerPC Macs:
»www.intuitive.com/blog/ubuntu_li···ook.html
»seehuhn.de/pages/powerbook
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Xahonusela
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Ubuntu for the PPC works great.install it on an old imac I had and work fine.
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it's a macbook g4. and it's ppc. it's about 5 years old. it has a gig of ram in it and i'm not sure about what speed the processor is.
i was looking at open suse but i didn't even know that ubuntu had a ppc version. i'll probably download that and give it a go....
i'll keep everyone updated. my biggest goal will to be to get the wireless working.... |
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Ctrl Alt Del
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| said by muzscman  :it's a macbook g4. and it's ppc. it's about 5 years old. it has a gig of ram in it and i'm not sure about what speed the processor is. There is no such thing as a MacBook G4. The name MacBook started when Apple switched to Intel. It's either an iBook or a PowerBook. On the Mac, right below the display it will literally tell you what it is: either iBook or PowerBook. To get the CPU speed, click on the Apple in the top left corner and select "About This Mac".
said by muzscman :i was looking at open suse but i didn't even know that ubuntu had a ppc version. i'll probably download that and give it a go.... Ubuntu stopped supported PowerPC after version 6. You can't get the latest Ubuntu 8 on PowerPC from Canonical.
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| said by Ctrl Alt Del :said by muzscman :it's a macbook g4. and it's ppc. it's about 5 years old. it has a gig of ram in it and i'm not sure about what speed the processor is. There is no such thing as a MacBook G4. The name MacBook started when Apple switched to Intel. It's either an iBook or a PowerBook. On the Mac, right below the display it will literally tell you what it is: either iBook or PowerBook. To get the CPU speed, click on the Apple in the top left corner and select "About This Mac". said by muzscman :i was looking at open suse but i didn't even know that ubuntu had a ppc version. i'll probably download that and give it a go.... Ubuntu stopped supported PowerPC after version 6. You can't get the latest Ubuntu 8 on PowerPC from Canonical. then i'm going with ibook....it's white. 14" screen. |
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mwc
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Debian is your best bet. I've tried Ubuntu's PPC releases a few times, and they're just not as worry free as their officially supported platforms. (Ubuntu dropped PPC with 6.04 IIRC.)
I run debian unstable on my powerbook. |
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Xahonusela
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Debian PPC .
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said by mwc :Debian is your best bet. I've tried Ubuntu's PPC releases a few times, and they're just not as worry free as their officially supported platforms. (Ubuntu dropped PPC with 6.04 IIRC.) I run debian unstable on my powerbook. Thanks and thanks xahonusela. I'll download it and give it a go. I got home from work on Friday and apparently my kids had gotten ahold of it and popped 5 of the buttons off. Two of them wouldn't go back on until I took the little plastic things under the keys off and fixed them but it's all good now.
Gunna download debian right now and burn it to a CD! |
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muzscman
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Quick question. I'm on their download site and I see what looks like 22 cd's?? That can't be right. Am I missing something here??
Here's the link:
»cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0···/iso-cd/
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"The first CD/DVD disk contains all the files necessary to install a standard Debian system.
To avoid needless downloads, please do not download other CD or DVD image files unless you know that you need packages on them."
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Debian installed like a dream. It found the wireless nic. But I'm having a hard time connecting it to my router. I'm going to screw around with it for awhile tonight, but the debian install was amazingly easy and it runs like a dream on the ibook....
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Fedora works great on PPC as well. |
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I installed OpenSuse 10.2 on a iBook 500Mghz G3 a few years ago. It worked well, but beyond MP3 playback was useless for any kind of multimedia.
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