My G4 would not boot from the CD, I was thinking I missed some bootable switch
when I burnt it or something. I had to use cdrecord, since the built in disk
copy craped out trying to deal with my .iso. The disk seems good except for the
fact it will not boot. And since I had never made a boot disk with cdrecord I
thought it was something in the command... But that could just be me...
Any way, I too am looking for a live PPC distro.
Quoting Craig White <
craigwhite@azapple.com>:
> downloaded Ubuntu 5.04 PPC Live CD and tried it on 4 different iMac's
> -
> no success
>
> Probably a part of the problem is that I burned it at 8x and I
> probably
> have to slow it down so I am burning a copy now at 2x
>
> 2 of the iMac's ended up failing to get it started because somewhere
> along the way it failed to read the CD
>
> 1 of them simply went into shock - going to firmware screen
>
> 1 (actually an eMac - G4 and not a G3) got all the way to the point
> where the screen should have presented the GDM login but never quite
> came out of the black and visiting all the virtual terminals failed to
> show any error of any kind.
>
> This was a poor experience.
>
> Does anyone have experience with PPC Live CD - any distro?
>
> How about installed distro's in G3 iMac's ?
>
> Craig
>
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