Re: live cd

From: Lynn (nevermind_at_rubberdomain.net)
Date: 12/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:06:19 GMT

Victor Ramiro wrote:
> hi,
>
> im looking for a live cd for my ibook g4.
> why a live cd?, because i want to try linux on my ibook
> before partition my hard disk an all that
> (i'm a pc linux user,a newbie on mac)
>
> well, i've been looking for a live cd, and i found a few distributions.
> my problem is that any of that cd's worked on my ibook (i couldnt start
> from the cd, and y tried ALL the keys :) ).
> now, i want to start again, from zero, so i accept any comments
>
> thanks a lot
> --
> Victor A. Ramiro Cid - LU #171397
> mailto:<vramiro@SIN_ESTOdcc.uchile.cl> http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~vramiro
>
You may want to look here for an opinion and some information on live
cds for PPC:

http://homepage.mac.com/bner/iblog/B1570693677/C1271976503/E1995539341/

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There is also a live cd for NetBSD now as well:

http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~jschauma/acm/cd.html

Unfortunately it's not for PPC, but there are instructions on how to
build one, so I think you may be able to put one together from the info
available.

http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~jschauma/acm/createcd.txt

I hadn't actually *looked* at the instructions until now and I see that
it requires installing NetBSD first in order to create the live cd. So
this doesn't appear to be as uncomplicated as I was imagining unless you
have a spare HD to use for the project or another PPC box that can be
used to create the live CD.

HTH,
Lynn

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