 Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT | [OS X] Booting from CD on powerbook G4 Anyone know how to boot from the CD? I held down the option button but all that shows up is the main drive but when I get into os x the contents of the cd shows. |
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 ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-07
Bronx, NY
kudos:4 | What kind of CD is it? Are you sure it's PPC-bootable?
Typically, you use the option method, hold down "C" at startup, or use Startup Disk in System Preferences.
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Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT | well it's a linux distro so I'm not sure |
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ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
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Bronx, NY
kudos:4 | What distro and where did you download it from? Do you have the name of the ISO image? If it says i386, x86, x86-64 or something along those lines, it won't work.
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 MikePremium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA | reply to Subaru
it needs to be PPC based. also known as good luck finding one. |
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 joakoPremium
join:2000-09-07
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| I believe openSUSE 11.1 but basically no updates or software support (3rd party repositories, etc).
I have a bunch of G4 PowerMacs I am slowly formatting and donating, 10.4 seems to run OK.... amazing if you consider the things are 10+ years old. If it's a newer PowerBook I think you can run 10.5 as well.
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ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-07
Bronx, NY
kudos:4 | Debian still has PowerPC support, with a decent amount of updates. I like it a lot better than SUSE.
»cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0···/iso-cd/
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 mbernsteBoostedPremium,MVM
join:2001-06-30
Piscataway, NJ | reply to Mike
said by Mike:it needs to be PPC based. also known as good luck finding one.
I think Yellow Dog Linux has a PPC version as does Windows NT 4.0. |
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said by Thinkdiff:What distro and where did you download it from? Do you have the name of the ISO image? If it says i386, x86, x86-64 or something along those lines, it won't work.
I was trying to get backtrack 3 to go |
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ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-07
Bronx, NY
kudos:4 | Not gonna work.
Probably doesn't support Airport / Airport Extreme cards properly anyway.
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I booted a Ubuntu cd yesterday on my G4. The booting was slightly different to a PC , I had to press the Enter key part way through the boot process for it to boot.
On a PC I usually use Open Suse so have no idea how good Ubuntu is, although it appeared quite fast. |
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Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT | I guess on a mac when a cd is not bootable when you hold down control I think it was the cd just wont show up? |
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ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-07
Bronx, NY
kudos:4 | Backtrack is made to run on x86 processors. It won't work on your Mac.
If a disk is bootable, it'll either show up when you hold down "Option" at startup, or it'll just boot when you hold down "C".
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