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I have an iBook G4 and would like to dual-boot Mac OS X and a Linux distro. Is it possible? If "Yes!" then how do I proceed. Mac OS X first, then Linux?
I am thinking of installing Distro Astro, (I think the version I have installed on a Toshiba laptop (alongside MS-Windows & Mint) is an 'i386' image. Does this complicate things or should I be looking for a PPC linux distro?
I have an iBook G4 and would like to dual-boot Mac OS X and a Linux distro. Is it possible? If "Yes!" then how do I proceed. Mac OS X first, then Linux?
I am thinking of installing Distro Astro, (I think the version I have installed on a Toshiba laptop (alongside MS-Windows & Mint) is an 'i386' image. Does this complicate things or should I be looking for a PPC linux distro?
You need a PowerPC distro changing you OS doesn't change your processor architecture. If you're looking for flash and all that you still not going to get it in Linux.
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.4,DD-WRT micro plus ssh,lfs-6.6,Fedora 15,Fedora 16
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d'oh, i missed the PowerPC part and that would be correct, you need a PowerPC distribution such as YellowDog, and although there is no flash there is the VLC plugin/greasemonkey+vlctube which should at least give you Youtube videos, not sure if there is an open source flash plugin for PPC or not, but definately not an official PPC linux flash plugin.
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