Re: live cd
From: Anton Ertl (anton_at_mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at)
Date: 12/18/04
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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:21:26 GMT
vramiro@SINESTO.dcc.uchile.cl (Victor Ramiro) writes:
>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)
In that case, I don't see any reason for holding onto MacOS. Just
jump in and intall Linux on the hard disk. If it does not work, you
can still install MacOS X from the CD that came with your iBook.
I got my iBook G4 (1066MHz) a month ago or so, and did not even bother
to do anything with MacOS X. I installed from the Debian Sarge
installer CD, and it was very easy, except for one gotcha (which may
be fixed in the meantime): The yaboot.conf was wrong after the
installation (it wanted to load an initrd that did not exist), so
yaboot dropped me into Open Firmware; there I had to type "reboot" to
continue booting (which I discovered by luck, although I guess I would
have found it on the net eventually).
Things that I haven't gotten to work: Using the external and the
internal screen at the same time (I would like clone mode). What I
have not tried, but would also like: Disabling the touchpad (maybe
disable it only if there is an external mouse connected). Suspending
reportedly does not work, either (certainly not when you close the
lid), but with the screen lamp turned off, it consumes only 12.7W
(wall-plug power, probably less from the battery) and that should work
as a poor man's suspend-to-RAM.
>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 :) ).
Try pressing c on booting.
- anton
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