Chris Gehlker wrote:

> On Jun 22, 2004, at 7:57 PM, Don Calfa wrote:
>
>> I just bought a new iBook G4 and I'd like to have it so that I can 
>> boot Knoppix on it so my wife can play her games.  The CD is good 
>> because other G4's boot with it but this iBook doesn't.  Anybody have 
>> a similar problem?
>
>
>
> I've seen enough install disks that would only boot with older 
> versions of Open Firmware, including both Gentoo and Debian, that I'm 
> not surprised. I am surprised that so many distributions ship with 
> very out of date versions of Yaboot, but that's been going on for a 
> long time. You can go to <http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/> and 
> build your own boot-loader from source and then burn it onto your own 
> disk. Or just go with a current Gentoo LiveCD.
>
> -- 
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary 
> depends upon his not understanding it.
> -Upton Sinclair, novelist and reformer (1878-1968)
>
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After Googling around on the issue, apparently the minority are the ones 
who get Knoppix to work.  I tried Knoppix on a G4 400Mhz and got the 
kdeinit error and thought it was because it's just an old system.

I'm downloading Gentoo right now and was going to post back with the 
results.
I bought the iBook so I can stay in touch and check my servers while I'm 
away in a couple of weeks. 
My wife 'needs' KPatience. I just need ssh, Eclipse, MySQL, etc... but I 
wanted to run OS X to get familiar with the OS.

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