iMac 600 MHZ

Peter Gort pgort at iprimus.com.au
Thu Dec 28 11:12:33 UTC 2006


Anybody know where I can find the iso image for Ubuntu 5.1? the Linux  
Questions website has links but they all go 404.

On 28/12/2006, at 7:20 AM, Peter Gort wrote:

> a long time ago, I installed Ubuntu 4 on an old iMac G3 600(blue
> dalmation thing) I have laying around, and it worked OK.  Then I
> needed it to run as a Mac for a while for some project work so I
> erased everything and set it up with Mac OS X 10.3, then 10.4.
>
> A little while ago I got some new computers and retired the old iMac,
> which had done sterling service and never failed in any way, and it's
> over 5 years old now.
>
> Now I have a need of a DNS server in my local subnet, I thought I'd
> stick Ubuntu onto it again.  I went for Desktop rather than server so
> that it could be used to keep 8 year old amused during school
> holidays.  Boy did I get a shock!, neither 6.06 or 6.10 live cds will
> boot to a graphical screen, no matter what options I have been able
> to figure out.  Either I got a completely blank screen or I got a
> mixed up looking text screen that said the XServer had failed to
> start.  Eventually I gave up and downloaded the 6.10 alternate CD,
> and ran an "expert" installation, mostly going with the default
> settings.  At no time during the installation did it ask for XServer
> settings, but the install completed without incident and it rebooted.
> It booted with a strange white square occupying the lower two thirds
> of the screen.....  However it eventually came to a graphical login
> screen that looked normal, and I was able to log in, but it is
> responding so slowly that mouse movements take up to 30 seconds to
> show on the screen and I've been waiting 10 minutes now for the
> Preferences sub menu to appear under the System menu.
>
> Anybody got any idea why this unusably slow thing is happening?  Box
> is an iMac G3 600 MHz, 512MB RAM, 40G hard drive all of it dedicated
> to Ubuntu, no Mac OS Partition.  Spec says "ATI RAGE 128 Pro graphics
> with 8 MB of SDRAM or ATI RAGE 128 Ultra graphics with 16 MB of
> SDRAM" not sure which I've got.  If I can get it to shut down
> gracefully I'll reboot from Mac OS CD and find out...
>
> Peter
>
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