[NTLUG:Discuss] Knoppix for the ppc (Mac)
MadHat
madhat at unspecific.com
Mon Dec 29 11:22:21 CST 2003
On Dec 29, 2003, at 11:08 AM, Robert Citek wrote:
>
> On Sunday, December 28, 2003, at 09:07 PM, MadHat wrote:
>> I am running 10.3 and was able to burn the CD (not using Disk Copy)
>> and got it to boot. There are issues with the X configs (not
>> properly detecting), key bindings are all off (using .de), it's in
>> german (as in the error messages on the command line) and it can't
>> start kde, but it booted to Linux on an old 400MHz iMac (original
>> Indigo).
>
> Hmmm. Any thoughts on why I can mount the iso and get a matching
> md5sum, yet the burn does not work? Google was not helpful.
>
> Machine is a PowerBook G4 laptop running OS X 10.2.8.
>
disk copy is a 9.x app and I have never been successful. I am running
10.3 and used another app, but the ISO burning does not work with 10.2
But with my results of the ISO, I wouldn't bother. I can get a lot of
it working, but I can't find a window manager on it and I can't get X
to work properly.
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