[SFD-discuss] How do you setup GNU/Linux on an iMac G4 with Panther OS X 10.3.9 ?...

[Rob Beard]

On 16/09/10 20:58, don warner saklad wrote:
> How do you setup GNU/Linux on an iMac apple computer
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G4 with Panther OS X 10.3.9
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X_10.3 ?...
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It's been a long while, but IIRC you should be able to do it with 
something like YellowDog Linux (which I believe is a DVD) or an Ubuntu 
PowerPC version.  I gather that PowerPC support has been dropped 
recently in Ubuntu but you might find that Ubuntu 8.04 PPC would do the job.

When you have a disc (CD or DVD) burnt, restart the Mac with the disc in 
and hold down the C key.  It *should* boot from the CD.  I believe you 
press enter at the prompt (it'll be a black and white screen) and follow 
it from there (I think with Ubuntu it'll be the text installer).  When 
it's installed it should boot into yaboot (which is like a PPC version 
of Lilo) and then you can choose to boot into Linux or if you've kept 
OSX installed alongside Linux you can boot into that too.

This might give you some pointers to get started with:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPC

and

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/downloads/

(the YellowDog page seems to mainly cover installing Linux on the PS3).

Hope this helps.  As I say it's been a while (good 4 or 5 years) since I 
installed it on my iMac G3 so my memory is a bit sketchy.

Rob