Trying to Install LINUX on a 20 year old Mac! (Not a tutorial)

[@Sugar95]

Welcome back! Interesting video, surprised at how well it ran

[@DistrosProjects]

Thanks! Love your songs :)

[@Sugar95]

@@DistrosProjects Thank you :)

[@yunski_gtd]

Tried to install FienixOS today (20/10/2024) on my 800MHz iMac G4. A lot of struggles either, installation went pretty much OK but resulted in a system that boots up in a white screen, can't do much about it and i don't wanna install it again. (took 1+ hours to install all the packages.) I think it might be a GPU issue? Weird, because OSX worked OK on it. I installed Adélie successfully on my 700MHz eMac with KDE Plasma, thanks to Action Retro's vid. Works like a charm, lacks some RAM tho. Nice video, good luck for perfecting this (now) Linux iMac.

[@peterscheepers5780]

Interesting to see you struggle as well, I have spend a number of days struggling as well to get any kind of PPC distro working on any of my G4 machines but all of them failed to get to a graphical desktop whatever kernel options I provided. I got Debian 7 running in text mode on my dual processor MDD and got the life disks of Adelie and Ubuntu Mate working but could not read the graphics screen to see what I did need to install it. Unfortunately MintPPC 11 is not around anymore as I saw on some old videos that that could deal with the graphics issues all these G4 machines seem to have i.e. PowerPC, iMac and iBook. So I gave up in the end. My G4’s run very well with Sorbet Leopard especially the dual processor MDD with 2 Gigs of RAM.

[@bobpegram8042]

Don't you need to format the hard drive as HFS+ rather than HFS? When I boot from a live Lubuntu DVD and use G-Parted it won't let me format the hard drive as HFS+. It is greyed out. And it won't let me format an HFS partition bigger than 2 GB. The internal hard drive I am trying to format for an Adelie installation is 80GB. I want a 1GB partition for root and the rest for everything else. By the way, I am trying to install Adelie on a Blue and White Yosemite G3 with 1GB of RAM. That is the maximum RAM. It has the newer video chip on the mother board. I bought it new in late 1999. The bigger hard drive and DVD drive are not original.

[@DistrosProjects]

It could be either HFS or HFS+, it doesn't matter that much, but Linux usually doesn't have the utility to format HFS+ partitions installed by default. For PowerPC you need an HFS or HFS+ partition mounted at /boot/grub for GRUB that's at least 256MB, and then any other partition for everything else.

[@thelovertunisia]

how much ram does it have

[@DistrosProjects]

768MB

[@thelovertunisia]

@@DistrosProjects I have lubuntu on my white macbook (core2duo1gig ram) but it is so slow if I use the internet. Apart from that libreoffice or even python is just fine, even freecad works! But internet is hell.