Re: which linux live-cd for older mac?

From: Chuck Hughes (dev_at_null.con)
Date: 06/13/04 

Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:01:49 -0500

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:08:39 -0700, Robert Crawford wrote:

> peter pilsl <pilsl@goldfisch.at> wrote in message
> news:<40be4394$1@e-post.inode.at>...
>> Hallo,
>>
>> I'm a strict linux-guy (on x86) and never had to deal with a mac. Now I
>> got my hands on an old iBook (~3 years old, 400MHz, currently running OS
>> 9.1 or something like that) and want to boot (not install !!) linux. My
>> google-search lead me to gentoo livecd for ppc, but I also discoverd
>> unfamiliar terms like "old world" and "new world" and that there are
>> some problems with "old world"-machines and newer live-cd-releases and
>> that there might be troubles to get the mac booting from the cd without
>> a extra boot-disk and stuff like that. I looked at the gentoo-mirrors
>> and there are several version I could download:

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>
> Peter,
> The Gentoo "live-cd's are only for actually installing Gentoo to a hard
> drive. They aren't like a Knoppix live-cd, where you can actually boot
> into a fully functioning linux system, running off the hard drive. In
> other words, you could use one to install Gentoo onto a Mac, but you can't
> just boot from one, and have a working linux istallation- you would have
> to actually install Gentoo onto the hard drive (a very long involved
> process, taking at least a day or two- even if you know what you're doing.
>
> There might be a Knoppix-like remaster for PPC out there somewhere. I'd
> like to find one too, as I have a nice G3 new world with lots of ram
> sitting around, and I'd like to see how linux acts on it. I've consiodered
> installing Gentoo on it, but haven't gotten a Mac modem set up as of yet.
> BTW- I think any iBook would probably be a new world type computer.
>
> Robert Crawford

Try
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php?sort=&showonly=PowerPC
,(sorry, tinyurl.com is having mysql trouble). It's big list of live linux
cd's. The Knoppix PPC looks like the best bet, even though it's an old
version. Can't help any more than that, the only experience I've had with
Macs is locking one up at Kinkos just using photoshop. :)

HTH 

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