Hi ALUG
Hope you can help. I have been toying with Linux for a number of years. I detest Windows (as most people do) and partly because I am a designer and partly because it is simple, reliable and fast my OS of choice is Mac OSX.
As any Mac OSX user knows, it is built around Unix and shares similar attributes with Linux.
I have a 1Ghz eMac and want to run Linux on it. I have been using the live Ubuntu distro on an old G3 iBook at work and loved it. I now want to run it at home on my eMac, but don't want to lose my OSX, so would like to dual boot.
How do I do this without wiping everything off my Mac and is Ubuntu the best choice for PowerPC users?
I have noticed a few others but Ubuntu always seems to come out on top. Yellow Dog is a little behind and I am not sure about OpenSuse?
Will any of the PowerPC distros take advantage of my Airport Extreme card, my DLink router and my iPod. I have tried all my other hardware from scanners, digital camera and memory sticks and these all seem to work fine under Ubuntu, but eventually if I can get everything I need from Linux I would scrap Mac OSX altogether.
You help would be very much appreciated?
Kind Regards
Simon Royal
---- www.simonroyal.co.uk The box said requires Windows 2000 or better, so I bought an Apple Mac
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:40 +0000, Simon Royal wrote:
I have a 1Ghz eMac and want to run Linux on it. I have been using the live Ubuntu distro on an old G3 iBook at work and loved it. I now want to run it at home on my eMac, but don't want to lose my OSX, so would like to dual boot.
How do I do this without wiping everything off my Mac and is Ubuntu the best choice for PowerPC users?
You would need to be able to resize your HFS partitions during the installation. I know GNU parted is capable of doing this but I've never tried.
This guy has done it: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89960
The easiest (and best documented) way is to backup all your stuff (a good think to do anyway ;), re-install OS X from your installation media making a partition for Linux (which the installer will insist on formatting as HFS anyway, but that doesn't matter), then install Linux onto the spare partition.
Will any of the PowerPC distros take advantage of my Airport Extreme card, my DLink router and my iPod. I have tried all my other hardware from scanners, digital camera and memory sticks and these all seem to work fine under Ubuntu, but eventually if I can get everything I need from Linux I would scrap Mac OSX altogether.
I don't think you'll have much luck with Airport extreme. But I think you can mount your iPod as a USB mass storage device (but you probably loose some of the features of iTunes)
Cheers, Richard
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:51 +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:40 +0000, Simon Royal wrote:
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I don't think you'll have much luck with Airport extreme. But I think you can mount your iPod as a USB mass storage device (but you probably loose some of the features of iTunes)
http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ works well for the Airport extreme.
The most noticeable losses(?) on PowerPC for me is Macromedia Flash, but for the times where that is really needed Mac-On-Linux fills the gap.
Adam
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