Hi,
thanks to all for your replies to this off-topic thread!
I succeeded in installing a 15.04 Mate Ubuntu, had to struggle a bit to
get sound, wifi and video stability (found easy fixes on the web about
these).
Still remains incorrect desktop colors (something wrong about big endian
somewhere in
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Jeremy Hoel wrote:
> Besides the other linux distros mentioned, you have another more retro type
> choice
>
> http://www.macworld.com/article/2363177/macs/turn-your-g4-era-mac-into-a-next-gen-amiga.html
>
You know, I do have a G4 mini somewhere... I do wonder
On 09/15/2015 11:27 AM, Leon Fauster wrote:
Am 15.09.2015 um 19:09 schrieb Keith Keller
:
On 2015-09-15, Leon Fauster wrote:
On 2015-09-15, wwp wrote:
this also helps to boot
http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
rEFInd will work on EFI-based Macs, but not on old PPC Macs, which are
based
Besides the other linux distros mentioned, you have another more retro type
choice
http://www.macworld.com/article/2363177/macs/turn-your-g4-era-mac-into-a-next-gen-amiga.html
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:29 AM, wwp wrote:
> Hello there,
>
>
> complete off-topic, sorry about this, but my former id
Am 15.09.2015 um 19:09 schrieb Keith Keller
:
> On 2015-09-15, Leon Fauster wrote:
>>> On 2015-09-15, wwp wrote:
>>
>> this also helps to boot
>>
>> http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
>
> rEFInd will work on EFI-based Macs, but not on old PPC Macs, which are
> based on OpenFirmware (so grub wo
On 2015-09-15, Leon Fauster wrote:
>> On 2015-09-15, wwp wrote:
>>>
>>> Searching the web, I see very few possibilities to install a recent (I
>>> need gnome2) GNU/Linux distro on such hardware. I gave Linux MintPPC 11
>>> (http://www.mintppc.org/content/list-macs) a try, but the netinstall
>>>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 4:29 AM, wwp wrote:
> Hello there,
>
>
> complete off-topic, sorry about this, but my former idea was to install
> a CentOS on an old mac mini (PPC!). Disappointed to see that PowerPC is
> not a supported architecture and that non ARM or Intel architecture are
> not manage
Am 15.09.2015 um 17:12 schrieb Keith Keller
:
> On 2015-09-15, wwp wrote:
>>
>> Searching the web, I see very few possibilities to install a recent (I
>> need gnome2) GNU/Linux distro on such hardware. I gave Linux MintPPC 11
>> (http://www.mintppc.org/content/list-macs) a try, but the netinstal
On 2015-09-15, wwp wrote:
>
> Searching the web, I see very few possibilities to install a recent (I
> need gnome2) GNU/Linux distro on such hardware. I gave Linux MintPPC 11
> (http://www.mintppc.org/content/list-macs) a try, but the netinstall
> iso simply fails in installing a boot loader that
Hello there,
complete off-topic, sorry about this, but my former idea was to install
a CentOS on an old mac mini (PPC!). Disappointed to see that PowerPC is
not a supported architecture and that non ARM or Intel architecture are
not managed by recent distros.. :-(.
Searching the web, I see very
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