On Sep 1, 2006, at 14:38 , Robert Citek wrote: > > On Sep 1, 2006, at 12:56 PM, AgentM wrote: >> On Sep 1, 2006, at 12:55 , Thomas Kirk wrote: >> >>> I installed edubuntu on a imac g3 slot load 400mhz with dvd and >>> firewire. It seems to work well. I will try and bring it to the next >>> meeting. >>> Thomas Kirk >> >> Which window manager are you running? How much RAM does the box have? > > I'm also curious. At ByteWorks we got in a few G3 iMacs. I don't > know the specs other than they have 32 MB RAM and run MacOS 9.2 just > fine. I tried booting with Ubuntu but didn't have any luck. Any > tips/recommendations on how to get Ubuntu installed would be welcome.
You need at least 64 MB to get X to run. Anything less than 128 will be so slow as to be useless. Try one of the slimmer distros (Xubuntu) to start. http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/6.06.1/release.1/ -M _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
