OBI PPC?

Israel israeldahl at gmail.com
Fri Jan 3 19:32:30 UTC 2014


On 01/03/2014 01:00 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> 2014-01-03 19:38, Israel skrev:
>> Will OBI work for PPC?
>> Also, will there be a Live environment for PPC in the new mini GNU/Linux
>> distro Ali (and everyone else) is working on?
>> I have just gotten an OLD iBook (900MHZ ppc & 128Mb ram) and want to put
>> a useable OS on it.
>>
> Hi Israel,
>
> No there is no OBI version for the PPC. I think that it will be hard to
> boot from USB at all. I'd recommend a Lubuntu alternate iso file for
> Power PC and to install from the CD drive.
>
> 128MB ram is very low, so there might be problems. It is enough for the
> OBI, so an IBM compatible PC would boot and install with that size of RAM.
>
> Best regards
> Nio
I'm downloading the 14.04 PPC version to try it out and see how it goes, 
just to try to boot (I am prepared for it to take excruciatingly long).
It can't be much slower than the current OS...
I just figured these old Macs might be a target for OBI

-- 
Regards




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