[ale] Linux on an IMAC G3

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

I have the recent release of Yellow Dog running on a G3 imac just fine. 
Installation was a breeze except for sound, which is still "sort of" 
working. (There seems to be something about sound under Linux...) Well, 
there was one other issue. I ran out of room on the original hard disk to 
have both Linux and OS 9x dual booting, so I performed the needed surgury 
to install a 60 meg drive. Be aware that the first two imacs require the 
boot information to reside in the first 6-7Gigs of the drive, and the 
partition can not extend past those 6-7 Gigs. The easy way around the 
limitation if you have it is to put a small boot partition at the 
beginning of the disk, just like you often do with intel equipment.

I understand that the Debian release is supposed to be good also, but I 
haven't looked at it.

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Jeb Barger wrote:

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> I have recently inherited an older imac clamshell g3.  I did some
> searches for a good os for the laptop and came accross yellowdog linux.
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> Anybody ever use it?  or have any other suggestions?
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