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Yellow Dog on G3

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iolair

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Oct 28, 2002
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I'm having trouble installing Yellow Dog Linux on an iBook G3. It starts the install, but then locks up after about 22 lines or so. It finds the PCI bridge, NVRAM, etc. Is there a way to force a "safe" start? Like lower resolutions, etc.?

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer
 
Thanks. Guess it's back to OS X.

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer
 
Why Yellow Dog?, Isn't the the formentioned distro that you can install on your PS3?
 
I had heard from a friend in San Jose that they used Yellow Dog on all their Macs and it worked fine. Of course, they have new G5 Macs, and mine is an old G3 iBook. I was wanting to use Mac hardware to run Linux, but I'll just use Apple's weird version of BSD (Darwin) and compile the source I need for the Mac kernel. Thanks.

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer
 
if you want to install Linux, then have a read:

Installing Xubuntu on a G3 iMac

and the follow up on the above:

Installing Ubuntu Linux on a G3 iMac

and this may be of interest:

Mac Linux Links

Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"
 
Thanks! I got the KDE version of Ubuntu to work - Kubuntu. Very slick!

Iolair MacWalter
Network Engineer
 
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