Re: Ubuntu, G3, XPostFacto

[tjdill]

thers also xubuntu

On May 17, 7:54 am, Charles Lenington  wrote:
> TVirkkala wrote:
> > I bought a G4 iMac at FreeGeek in Portland, a few days ago, and it came
> > with Ubuntu installed. It appears to be the Jaunty Jackalope.
>
> Which G4? You don't specify, The early G4's had cdrom drives instead of
> dvdrom drives.
>
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Re: Ubuntu, G3, XPostFacto

[Charles Lenington]

TVirkkala wrote:
I bought a G4 iMac at FreeGeek in Portland, a few days ago, and it came 
with Ubuntu installed. It appears to be the Jaunty Jackalope.


Which G4? You don't specify, The early G4's had cdrom drives instead of 
dvdrom drives.


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Re: Ubuntu, G3, XPostFacto

[Bruce Johnson]

On May 12, 2010, at 11:26 AM, TVirkkala wrote:

> 
> I don't really know if the optical drive is even working properly, at this 
> point. No evidence for it.
> 
> Any ideas? (I forget, can one boot OS X from a Firewire optical drive?)
> 

It does sound as if the Optical drive is foo.

> I suppose I could call FreeGeek.com Hate to bother people who do such 
> good work recycling computers, though.

I"m sure they have drives laying about to swap you; hell a brand new drive 
won't cost more than $20 or so...

Here's a DVD+/- R/RW DL drive for $28




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Re: Ubuntu, G3, XPostFacto

[TVirkkala]

I bought a G4 iMac at FreeGeek in Portland, a few days ago, and it  
came with Ubuntu installed. It appears to be the Jaunty Jackalope.


But when I tried to install OS X, I couldn't get it to start up from  
the iMac's optical drive. Wouldn't boot.


The lovely young woman at FreeGeek gave me a disc with a utility that  
destroys everything on hard drives associated with the computer.  
Wouldn't boot off it, either.


I don't really know if the optical drive is even working properly, at  
this point. No evidence for it.


Any ideas? (I forget, can one boot OS X from a Firewire optical drive?)

I suppose I could call FreeGeek.com Hate to bother people who do  
such good work recycling computers, though.


twv


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Re: Ubuntu, G3, XPostFacto

[Kris Tilford]

On May 11, 2010, at 4:49 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:

Ubuntu on a PowerPC? Where can I get the download? I looked  
everywhere, an no luck.


Perhaps you need:

Type in PPC & Ubuntu

I need a direct link to it please. I preferably would rather have  
Kubuntu.


Direct link:


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Re: Ubuntu, G3, XPostFacto

[Mark Sokolovsky]

Ubuntu on a PowerPC? Where can I get the download? I looked everywhere, an
no luck. I need a direct link to it please. I preferably would rather have
Kubuntu.
 Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth.

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Ubuntu, G3, XPostFacto

[deadwinter]

Hi folks:

I've been searching the archives and I could have sworn we recently
had a discussion around using XPostFacto to boot Ubuntu from a
firewire drive on a beige G3.  Did I imagine that?

-carlos

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