Luix Gaztañaga, I reviewed the installation procedures and successfully installed YDL 5 on a spare Macintosh G4 tower with 1GB of RAM and a 60 GB hard drive. The GUI installation worked fine, and it booted into the Linux GUI after installation.
It may be that your system hardware is not up to the requirements of the Installation. According to "A Guide to Installing YELLOW DOG LINUX 5.0.2 for Apple PowerPC" [<ydl5.0.2_apple_guide.pdf>], the text installer "is used with systems whose graphics cards or monitors are not readily supported or systems with less than 200MB RAM." This may limit your GUI options after installation as well. One alternative would be to try a YDL Linux 4 release, though it may be less secure and robust. If your hardware choices are limited Linux may still be a viable option, but it does require time and effort to perform usefully. Even so, I have found the challenge worthwhile. Regards, Dale On Nov 6, 2010, at 8:18 PM, Luix Gaztañaga wrote: > The thing is that I have an old imac and before throwing to the trash I would > like to run any Linux distro in a rather easy way ( without using terminal). > Is that possible without getting frustrated?.I have tried, kubuntu 10.10, > xubuntu 10.10, debian 5.0,,ubuntu 8.04,,ubuntu 6.10 . I have a similar > situation to Yellow Dog with Debian but I can't reach the desktop. Linux will > be free software but it is not user friendly. > > 2010/11/7 . <[email protected]> > Not on a POWERPC based cpu. > Powerpc arcetecture is only used by older macs. > Any x86 or x64 based distro will be easier. > > Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and all other pre-compiled linux is easir. > Gentoo you compile it yourself, and its a 11/10 on how hard it is to install. > You have to script a compiler to compile the kernal then compiles all the > sources onto it. Takes 3 days man. > > Lol means laugh out loud. > Get a x86 or x64 computer (all new macs and windows) > > > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Luix Gaztañaga <[email protected]> wrote: > What is Lol?. Is there a distro easy to install without being a geek? I would > like an installation without being a nightmare.Today I have spent the whole > day installing the bloody Yellow Dog without success. > > 2010/11/7 . <[email protected]> > > Lol no > > > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Luix Gaztañaga <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like a distro that I can see the desktop properly wihout configuring > after installing.Is gentoo like that? > > 2010/11/6 . <[email protected]> > > Install gentoo > > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Luix Gaztañaga <[email protected]> wrote: > I have installed 5.0.2 in my imac g3 but when I boot I have a black screen > with a login . I don't have any idea to solve this situation . What do I have > to do? Any help will be welcomed. > Regards > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] > Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] > Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] > Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] > Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] > Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] > Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com' > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] > Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com'
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