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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: hm_murdock on 25 July 2006, 10:12

Title: Ubuntu!!
Post by: hm_murdock on 25 July 2006, 10:12

So, I've got the live/install CD burned. My iBook 300 hates it, I think it's just the CDR it hates. The blue G3 300 also doesn't like it. It'll read the disc, but not boot it. Holding C will attempt to boot from the disc, but it fails and continues booting into OS X. At the Ubuntu site, it says that 192MB of RAM is required to install, but is it required to boot? If so, that's it, since it's only got 128MB. Gaugh.

Title: Re: Ubuntu!!
Post by: Dark_Me on 25 July 2006, 11:56

You did download the PPC version right?

Title: Re: Ubuntu!!
Post by: piratePenguin on 25 July 2006, 12:35

I think there's some way to use the old menu-based installer which uses waaay less memory. Dunno if you can do that on the desktop version or if it's only the server version...

edit: see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommonQuestions#head-593abe9d75618b67713ee23761b5cccf99befcbb

Title: Re: Ubuntu!!
Post by: worker201 on 25 July 2006, 23:04

Not that it helps you, but I installed Ubuntu on my G3 900 iBook with 640MB RAM quite successfully.  The live cd ran just fine too, but it was so slow it reminded me of a 286.

Title: Re: Ubuntu!!
Post by: hm_murdock on 26 July 2006, 01:00

It boots perfectly on the G4 dual 500 with 1GB of RAM :p

It won't boot at all on the blue G3... it reads the disc, switches to the white OpenFirmware screen, then straight on to the OS X boot screen.

On my iBook 300, the drive doesn't like the CDR media so fuck that.

Title: Re: Ubuntu!!
Post by: pofnlice on 26 July 2006, 10:38

Get yer ass to Voids!  There's a guy there (Jenda) who is on the Ubuntu developement team (actually he's in the marketting side). But, I bet he'll know a work around.

BTW...Zulu for fuck you (plural sense...)

bhebha nina

If this little lesson has excited you and you want to learn more :D

ZULU TRANSLATOR!!! (http://isizulu.net/)
Just for fun anyway!!!

Title: Re: Ubuntu!!
Post by: worker201 on 26 July 2006, 20:18

All the Africans I know, from Western countries like Ghana, Nigeria, and Gabon, speak English.  Well, a special Africanized version of English, which makes Ebonics sound like the Gettysburg Address.  You could sit 2 feet away and have no idea that they were actually speaking English, but if you manage to pick up a few phrases here and there it will start to become clear.  Interestingly, they actuall refer to this language as "pidgen English".

Title: Re: Ubuntu!!
Post by: Master of Reality on 28 July 2006, 01:38

Quote from: hm_murdock

At the Ubuntu site, it says that 192MB of RAM is required to install, but is it required to boot? If so, that's it, since it's only got 128MB. Gaugh.

192MB required?? hmmm I installed it succesfully on 64MB at my school (ran doom pretty good too)