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jevchance wrote: > Jeremy, > > This thread already contains some false and misleading information. I > just installed 8.04 Server on a Power Mac G4 not long ago, so I'll try > to give you some real-world experience. > > First, while 6.10 is the last officially supported release, you can > get the newest version 9.04 for PowerPC. The difference is, its > entirely community supported without Canonical's involvement. See this > link for more details: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ > And this link for downloads: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads > Ah, seems I was wrong on this part. I noticed ppc disappeared from the official repo and a Canonical rep told me they dropped ppc at 6.10(face to face). The fact that you installed >6.10 does make my statement misleading/false. > For me, the installation of 8.04 was relatively painless, except for > one issue. > > First, note that the IDE controller on older Macs only supports > internal hard disks up to 120GB. I don't know the specifics of the > controller in your iMac, but if it came with a drive smaller than > 80GB, you may run into this limitation. For more information see: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1113139 What do you call older macs? If you read my first post I show a partition table for a 2001 500Mhz dualusb ibook using a 160GB drive. My ibook came with a 10GB drive. The only time I saw an issue with partitioning my 160GB drive was within the 10.2 Jaguar installer. It kept seeing the drive as 128GB, but that limitation is lifted in Tiger(or so I've read). I've had no issues partitioning the disk in Linux except the fact that cfdisk, fdisk and parted showed different tables. fdisk and macfdisk were the only ones that held true to the actual partition map. The reply to your forum posts seems to suggest there is a limit on the root partition size itself not a limit on the drive size within Linux. It was my understanding that OS's that don't rely on what openfirmware/bios reports on the ide bus(Linux for instance),don't have an issue with the limit when it comes to partitioning the drive. I've seen this on other systems that weren't macs also. The root partition limit...never ran into that because I never make root larger than 10GB. Enlighten me if you know differently! > That being said, Ubuntu on old PPCs looks for the hard disks to be > initialized in a very specific way in order to work. You can't just > use a typical GPT or MBR. You may not have seen the Apple table if > you've never installed a PPC version of Ubuntu. The PPC version of > Ubuntu comes with very different, very old, very buggy versions of > fdisk and parted. Still, use parted to initialize the disk. You can > see my Apple-formatted partition tables in the link above. > > I can't say for sure if your computer will require the Apple Partition > Map or not. I know mine did, but I know some newer machines may not. > If yours does, just know that its available as an option in parted > when you partition the disk. > > Beyond that, don't be afraid to download a distro and tinker! TBH, > that's how I learn. Try something, break it, then try to figure out > how to fix it. > > Also, regarding other distros, Debian is obviously good and very > similar to Ubuntu, and Yellow Dog has specialized in Mac Linux distros > for a very long time, so that might be a good avenue. However, I > haven't tried any of their recent distributions. > > Good luck and keep us updated! > > John > > On Jun 6, 7:29 am, Jeremy Leonard <[email protected]> wrote: >> One of my friends has some old Mac hardware that he is wanting to try >> Linux on. I told him that I could probably install Ubuntu for him, >> but my experience is primarily with picking up hardware by the piece >> and creating my own system. Is there anything I should watch out for >> when installing on a Mac system? >> >> Thanks. > > > - -- A healthy diet includes Linux, Linux and more Linux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkov7OMACgkQh+MLjl5SKYRDSACeJT1FykjvnumAtjc6z8DE2JI/ UqAAnidTZt0n9Y/6qR75aWoQN8tC6ghO =CmSw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
