Help with PowerPC Install

[anthony baldwin]

Graham wrote:

>Aaron Duncan wrote:
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>>I am new to Linux.  I have used it in the past when my employer's
>>servers and workstations had it installed, but never personally.  I
>>wanted to bring new life to an older iMac (G3 500MHz).  I reburned the
>>ISO twice, but the same thing happens-once the initial boot screen
>>indicator is filled, all I get is a soft music playing and a black
>>screen.  EVERY TIME!  This happened with Fedora Core as well.  Am I
>>missing something?  Or is Linux just destined not to work on my machine?
>>
>>Aaron Duncan
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>Hi Aaron, let me try and help.
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>Yes, you can get Linux on your box through the PowerPc.  There is even a
>distro specially written for the PowerPc ("Yellow Dog Linux") but its
>not based on anything at all Debian-like.  From my experience (and I
>don't like to say this) keep away from the Ubuntu variants when
>installing on a PowerPc.  I'd go for Debian, but there's a very good
>Slackware variant available in Vector Linux.
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Yellow Dog Linux is RH/Fedora based.  I have used it on a G4 iBook 
without problem in the past,
but it has been a while.  I would recommend it for use on Mac/PowerPC arch.
Gentoo also has PPC distro available.  I have seen the liveCD version of 
it in action, but never
attempted to install it.

Yellow Dog Linux links:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/
http://www.ydl.net/


tony


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