What distro would be best on an iMac G3?

ECas123 · 11-25-2007, 12:54 PM

I've got an iMac G3 with 32MB of ram, a 6GB HD and it's tray loading. I need a good desktop distro that's easy to install. Xubuntu isn't compatible and Debian, Slackintosh, and just about any other distro I've tried sofar takes me to some white screen saying

Code:

done
copying OF device tree....
Can't allocate initial device-tree chunk
DEFAULT CATCH, code=900 at SRR0: ff81ab68 SRR1: 0000b030
Apple iMac Open Firmware 3.0. f3 biult on 07/16/99 at...
ok
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Any suggestions?

MS3FGX · 11-26-2007, 07:43 AM

32 MB of RAM? Are you sure about that?

You aren't going to be running any desktop distribution with 32 MB of RAM, sorry to say. The best you will be able to do is command line. Even then, I wouldn't attempt any sort of multitasking (I have a laptop with 32 MB of RAM, and it can't play an MP3 and editing using Vim at the same time without the sound cutting out).