Dapper on a PowerBook G3?

[dferwerda at ups.com]

Here are some pieces of information for you.  Basically, you need to
figure out whether it is an Old World or a New World ROM.  New World
ROMs are from the Lombard onward.  Basically, if you have firewire, it
is a Pismo, which I used to have, which is New World.  If it has a SCSI
slot, and a bronze keyboard, it should be a Lombard and also New World.
The telltale sign is usually the firewire connector.  If you have that,
it is fine to put Ubuntu on it because it is New World.  Below is a
snippet from Wikipedia for the G3.  Read up on the New World ROM and Old
World is there for reference.

The "Lombard", (AKA: Bronze Keyboard) a thinner, lighter, and faster
(333 or 400 MHz) PowerBook with a longer battery life and had both USB
and SCSI built in and was a New World ROM Mac, and then the "Pismo",
which replaced the single SCSI port with two FireWire ports,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook#PowerBook_G3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Mac

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World_Mac

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy
Gransden
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 6:11 PM
To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
Subject: Re: Dapper on a PowerBook G3?


On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 22:32 +0100, streetlightpoet wrote:
> Hello, I apologize for my ignorance, but I just purchased a used 
> wallstreet 2 last night. While I've been using macs for a few years 
> now I am a stranger to pre-X OS's and this 'book doesn't have an OS 
> installed regardless. From what you're saying it sounds like BootX is 
> required to install ubuntu on this model, does this mean there's no 
> hope for installing Ubuntu without purchasing some legacy install 
> discs first?
> 
> 
> --
> streetlightpoet
> 
I have xubuntu on a ibook g3 and i did not buy any disks. I downloaded
the ppc .iso from ubuntu.  I don't know much about the ppc architecture
so i'm not sure if they are the same.
 


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