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Postby karambos » Wed 12 Jan, 2005 10:05 am

can anyone tell me if there is there anything like an online "fools guide" to installing Linux on an mac? I've never done that before and I have to install on an iMac G5 at work.

I'm hopelessly out of my depth and appreciate any advice I can get.
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Postby Antony » Wed 12 Jan, 2005 10:22 am

You want to run Linux natively (as boot up directly to Linux), or you want to run it under Virtual PC for Mac?
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Postby karambos » Wed 12 Jan, 2005 10:40 am

Hi, thanks for getting back to me.

I've been given a seperate, 160 GB, external drive on which to install Linux. The drive is attached by a Firewire cable to the computer and I have to be able to boot to it - preferably by holding down the OPTION key when switching the mac on. At the moment, there are two drives in the computer - one with Panther and the other with the newer Tiger and we can choose which one we wish to boot from by holding down the OPTION key during startup. It would be great to see this external drive as a further option.
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Postby Antony » Wed 12 Jan, 2005 10:46 am

Okay, you are looking for PowerPC based Linux. Which linux are you looking at? YellowDog or MandrakeLinux (PPC)?
You won't be able to select booting with such a beautiful Mac interface, but there's Linux booting selection screen (so you can select to boot into Linux or any of your Mac OS X installed.)

And none of those guides would be that easy to follow, although not that hard, but with Linux, they just don't use the Mac language.
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Postby karambos » Thu 13 Jan, 2005 10:02 am

Mac OS X came with Linux? Perhaps I've misunderstood what you mean.
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Postby Antony » Thu 13 Jan, 2005 10:05 am

karambos wrote:Mac OS X came with Linux? Perhaps I've misunderstood what you mean.
Don't worry about that sarcastic post by spartanoneoneseven (or izanbardprince), an Apple basher.
spartanoneoneseven (or izanbardprince) is now banned.
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Postby Al » Thu 13 Jan, 2005 7:07 pm

Antony wrote:
karambos wrote:Mac OS X came with Linux? Perhaps I've misunderstood what you mean.
Don't worry about that sarcastic post by spartanoneoneseven (or izanbardprince), an Apple basher.
spartanoneoneseven (or izanbardprince) is now banned.

Why call him spartanoneoneseven? OS X does not come with Linux, Mac OS X is based from a Unix distro named Darwin
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Postby karambos » Fri 14 Jan, 2005 2:09 am

Thankyou all very much for all your help. I'm going to try Yellow Dog. Failing that a distibution called Ubuntu. Then Suse. (If I have time).

Once again, thanks.
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