[ale] never mind - was: yellow dog linux

[J.M. Taylor]

As is so often the case when I post, immediately after I hit enter I found
the answers to my question.

It should be an adventure getting mac OS and linux with x windows on a 2gb
disk.

jenn

J.M. Taylor said:
> No, I'm not a mac True Believer so I don't know whether this is a
> "Kanga" or "Wallstreet" or "Mainstreet" or any of that. It's a 233mhz
> powerbook, I know it's one of the first couple released so I can't put
> osX on
> it...which means it's basically a paperweight right now because I can't
> even put new apps on the thing.
>
> I would dearly love to breathe life back into this, it has served me
> well for a long time and I don't want to sell it.  Long story short,
> I've been trying to get the thing to boot to the Yellow Dog Linux
> install CD for an hour and still no luck. I've been all over the YDL
> site and it all seems to assume you can either successfully boot to
> their CD and read the instructions, or already have YDL installed.
>
> I have installed almost all of the major linux distros for intel, but
> have never tried to do anything with any other architecture. I admit I'm
> baffled. Are there any how-to's for the totally mac-stupid that someone
> could point me to, or can anyone help me out with this process?
>
> Barring that, does anyone want to buy a PowerBook G3 that would be great
> to run linux on?? ;)
>
> thanks
> jenn
>
>
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