[G4] G4 400 (PCI) success

[Earle Jones]

Cely:  Many thanks!

I'll give you a report on my shenanigans when I try it.

I'm tied up for the next day or so -- it'll probably be later this week.

Best wishes,

earle
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On Mar 4, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Celia Lawton-Livingstone wrote:

>> Cely:  Greetings!
>>
>> I am running an Intel IMac and Sys X 10.4.8.  I have a copy of Ubuntu
>> version 6.06.1 LTS for Mac.
>>
>> I haven't loaded it yet, but I thought I'd put it on a dedicated
>> external disk just to become familiar with it -- learn a bit about
>> Linux, mess around, etc.
>>
>> I am an old Mac hand with very little PC experience.
>>
>> What do you recommend?  Should I do it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> earle
>> *
>
> Hi earle,
>
> I had Xubuntu 6.10  running nicely on my G4 before I installed the  
> extra Ram... I've got Ubuntu 6.10 running on my 2nd desktop PC as a  
> dual boot and have also run the live cd on this laptop to see if I  
> can dual boot it here too.  The only annoying thing about running  
> it on  a PPC is that there is no shockwave/flash version for Linux  
> on a PPC.  Apart from that it's got some great programs to download  
> and play with, so I'd go for it. I'll probably put it on an  
> external drive when I an afford to buy one.
>
> If you were going to put it on your mac you need a small "linux  
> boot" partitian for Linux to boot from in addition to the mac boot  
> sector, plus a swap partition... I usually have mine twice the size  
> of the physical memory.
>
> On a mac the boot process initiates with the mac boot sector, then  
> the Linux boot, then the system files in the root partition.  I'm  
> not sure how it will go on an external drive, but I'd be interested  
> to know.
>
> Cely
>
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