Re: live cd

From: Axel Hammerschmidt (hlexa_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/17/04

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    Victor Ramiro <vramiro@SINESTO.dcc.uchile.cl> wrote:

    > 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)

    For an alternative, take a look at the article in Macworld
    (International/USA edition) from August, page 88: "Hasta la Vista, Aqua"
    by Cyrus Farivar.

    Explains how you can run X11 and KDE on Mac OS X. Should also let you
    run Open Source apps.

    > 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

    Tell us a little about the distro's you tried.

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