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 very out of date versions of Yaboot, but that's been going on for a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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