[ale] iMac

Richard Kolkovich sarumont at sigil.org
Wed Jul 12 16:51:46 EDT 2006


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On 07/12/06 16:38, Christopher Fowler declared:
> Based on a review on http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15122 I
> bought a Snow G3 500/256m/20GB/CD-RW iMac.  It came with OSX 10.1 and I
> want my daughter to primarily use it to access disney.com and nick.com.
> Will the flash work well?  

On OSX?  Yes.  On Linux?  YMMV.  The package is masked in Gentoo on my
PowerBook, so I assume there is no version from Macrobe for the PPC
arch.  If there is a PPC Linux version of Flock, that should have it
embedded.

> Are there any G3 based Live CD's where I can
> boot up Linux to back up the HDD to an image file over the network?

Strict boot, backup, scp/ftp of your OSX install?  Gentoo, Mandriva and
YellowDog Linux (YDL) all have PPC installations.  I would suggest the
Gentoo LiveCD as your best bet.  It will be lightweight, and it has all
the essential tools for doing this (tar, ssh, ftp).

I would almost suggest modifying the Gentoo LiveCD in such a way as it
boots, setting up only the minimal devices, makes the backup, puts it
where you need it and reboots automagically.  You should even be able to
make it eject itself.  This would be a fun (oh...and useful) project...

HTH

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Richard Kolkovich
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