PPC Live CD

[John Levin]

On 5 Oct 2004, at 08:32, volvoguy wrote:

> Just a quick question. Is there a reason there are no live cd's for
> powerpc while there are tons for x86? They're so handy for checking
> hardware compatibility and fixing random problems, but I've never seen
> one for PPC - Ubuntu distro or otherwise.
>
> I always just assumed it was because there was no demand for it - but
> it's obvious on this list that there are a lot of people using Ubuntu
> on that platform.
>

There's a ppc version of knoppix 3.2 you can download from:
http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix-mib/
See also:
https://www.bouissou.net/knoppix-mib/doc-html/Knoppix-Mib.html

Doesn't seem to be much current activity with it, but it did work on my 
new-world g3 imac.

There's a lot of demand for a ppc live disk - don't know why it hasn't 
taken off.

John