SUSE 9.3 on an iBook G3 - any experience anyone, will it work?
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SUSE 9.3 on an iBook G3 - any experience anyone, will it work?
I've recently installed SUSE 9.3 on my pc, and now I'd like to install it on my Mac as well.
It's an old one, an iBook G3, 500mhz, 512mb ram, 10gb hd, but I have heard of people running SUSE with almost the same processor speed and lees ram.
But will it work? I know that OS x is Unix based, so that will probably ensure some compability, but I need it to work 100%.
I'd also like to use OsX at the same time, to ensure 100% comptability with the wireless networks/servers I use with school.
But is 10Gb enough? Or should I get a larger HD, or another one to ensure that it works before i go deleting OSx.
Quite a rant, i reckon, but any help will be much appreciated!
Regards
Rune
Originally posted by Hairulfr I didn't really realize anything
I don't know much about it, but, now I do!
Thanks
Ubuntu has a PPC version 5.04 (DEbian) that is installing and working very nice on an Ibook 500G ( I assume you have the white one with 2 USB ports and 1 firewire and the old wlan card (10g).
All hardware was recognized. I didn't try out the modem until now, but network and other things work fine. You can use multi boot and keep the old os or replace that with panther. First you must install Mac software, then Ubuntu will recognize and make a boot with the entries.
I also used the YellowDog version 4 but it didn't recognize the sound!
I replaced the 10GB by an 80 gb. If you have some experiences with hardware and are careful it can be done. There is a sample with photos on the net, I used it.
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Last edited by CloudBuilder; 08-21-2005 at 06:52 PM.
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