Dapper on a PowerBook G3?

[Harold Johnson]

To add to the prior information doled out in this thread:  If you
discover you have an "Old World" Mac, you will indeed need to install
a Mac OS partition in order to install (and boot into) Ubuntu.  Your
Mac will require this in order to use BootX, a small application which
will direct your Mac to the Linux kernel.

I forget whether the Mac partition can be OS X; I've only used OS 9
for my own.  I've had my partition as small as 40MB (Yes, only 40
megs!) using only the barest of OS 9 installations to install BootX
onto.  Of course, with a (relatively small) partition of only 40MB,
you are limiting the amount of additional information you can drop
there.  Currently, my Mac OS partition is about 50MB -- I wanted more
breathing room.  Just in case.

Harold J. Johnson
http://darkmatterradio.com

On 8/1/06, dferwerda at ups.com <dferwerda at ups.com> wrote:
> 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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> The video arcade is down the street . Here we just sell small
> rectangular objects that are called books. Require a little effort on
> your part and make no b..b..b..beeps. On your way pleasesig
>
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