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so i went to an auction today and had a blast and ended up walking away 300 dollars poorer, but the main attraction of what i got was a 50 dollar iMac G4 Lamp Computer
instead of having a Mac OS on it is has an OS called Yellow Dog Linux which basically….
a) has any1 every used Yellow Dog
is it ne good?c) i would also need boot help if at all familiar.
if not i guess ill hit the forums :/
From a quick google I can guess that yellow dog is the poor man’s linux. Apparently it’s only designed to work on IBM processors, none of which have ever been very good in computers. Since it only works on the G4 and PS3 I can hazard a guess you probably won’t be getting the upper tier of support when you ask for help…
MasterP said:
From a quick google I can guess that yellow dog is the poor man’s linux. Apparently it’s only designed to work on IBM processors, none of which have ever been very good in computers. Since it only works on the G4 and PS3 I can hazard a guess you probably won’t be getting the upper tier of support when you ask for help…teh lame then
there is no boot menu…. even if i put in an Ubuntu disc. ive been tryin to get the machine to boot from the disc, but Yellow Dog isnt formatted to read the ISO files.
makes me the very frustrated >.<
burn an ubuntu disk designed for powerpc processors: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads
While the computer is booting up, hold down the alt/option button on the keyboard for the boot menu (or you can hold the letter c to just boot from CD)
Nickname said:
burn an ubuntu disk designed for powerpc processors: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloadsWhile the computer is booting up, hold down the alt/option button on the keyboard for the boot menu (or you can hold the letter c to just boot from CD)
have u ever heard of yaboot?
I’ve definitely run YDL. and I know a bit about yaboot – it’s nowhere near as friendly as GRUB but certainly helps since it’s all that they got on PPC. (big hint – if you’re snatching a hard drive from a previously Windows PC, format that sucker and restructure the MBR for the mac to read it, or else you’ll have a functioning system that won’t boot. google hid that one from me for a while)
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