Ubuntu / Apple :: HOW To Install Lucid On An IBook G4 1.3 Ghz 12"
May 31, 2010
I was fiddling with trying to get KMS working for about a week till I realized that it was probably broken and decided to drop it and use userspace DRI. Lo and behold, it was faster than I think I've ever gotten out of this model before. I'm aware that KMS supposedly supports the Mobility Radeon chip in this machine, but until I can find an easy way to get it to work, I'm probably going to stick with UMS. That being said, if anybody can get KMS working, I'd LOVE to change the tutorial around a bit.That being said, I'd like to take a moment to address a few things. This is not a tutorial for all iBooks, or all PPC Macs for Lucid. I cannot stress enough that your mileage may vary, and you should not hold me responsible for your individual situation.
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Mar 13, 2010
I'm trying to install ubuntu on an old iBook G4. I have two cds (9.10 (not PPC specific) and 8.04.1 (the PPC specific version)) along with the G4 install cds. I've tried booting while holding down C, and I've tried to boot holding down option. When the boot menu comes up it does not recognize either one. I've also reset the PRAM.I've read a lot of guides, and look through this very thoroughly. I don't even want to dual boot, just Ubuntu.
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Jul 5, 2011
I want to install Ubuntu on my ibook G4 (I don't care to have a dual boot) but I can't find a simple and concise set of instructions here.
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Feb 3, 2010
how to compile my own kernel for a ibook g4 and when you install it all works, because more and I compile everything but the audio worked, nose on me but I'm not mistaken at the sound card detected. I can do where there is a good manual?where can I get a kernel to this machine and it compiled?
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Jul 24, 2010
I am having trouble finding a live cd to install on an apple g3 ibook. I have 256 mg ram, and want to erase hard drive and install linux. How can I find a live cd to install. I am thinking about debian or slackware.
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Dec 2, 2010
I have been given an Apple Ibook that wont boot
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May 6, 2010
I thought it would be great to update to the latest version of ppc ubuntu on my old ibook g4, so i did just that. Everything seemed to install correctly, and the broadcom driver was properly detected and downloaded...however...when I connect to my wireless network, I can't get any data flow. No web pages, no connection to empathy...nothing.verything worked so flawlessly in 9.10, and I had just been using the wireless connection before I installed 10.04, so I know the hardware is fine
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Jan 2, 2011
I have an ibook g3 that I'm trying to resurrect with Ubuntu 10.04. However, booting into live CD always freezes it at some point in the installation process. I got it installed but everything takes five minutes to open. any way to make it faster?
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Jan 18, 2011
I have an old ibook g4. I was trying to install 10.04 on it. It booted from the cd,but when I installed ubuntu there were 2 or three error messages near the end that it couldnt delete some files. When I restarted, the computer went fine, until it got to a black screen with white text, which said it couldn't find files and said it would reboot in 180 seconds. I let it, and it just ended up the same. Did I trash my computer?
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Mar 18, 2010
I just installed ubuntu 9.10 on my ibook G4 and now i am wondering: how would i compile .java files and run then in xterm? What packages would i have to install? What commands would i use to do the compiling and the running? Would i use the gcj
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May 23, 2010
I have been running Ubuntu in my iBook/g4 800, 12' inch screen since jaunty and I must confess that I have had a fair share of graphics issue, however, since karmic, my computer would just go off especially when the AC is disconnected then on plugging back the AC, it comes back on but with the windows or the previous items on the screen completely deformed, that kind of deformation you would only blame graphics for. So the deformation stays for long and a reboot is all I'm left with.While still in karmic, i thought an upgrade to Lucid would get things back in place but that never happened, so I have been wondering what to do. I thought of a key combination that would turn on the screen in an iBook but I cant seem to find that through google, so I'm left with just fixing the underlying issue which according to some post on the Internet, wrong graphics settings might cause the monitor to shut down unexpectedly. I don't know exactly what exactly am I supposed to do? If that post is anything to go by, here is my xorg.conf(I know karmic+ does not need this but my system needs it) code...
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Dec 24, 2010
so after install several different versions of ubuntu on my ibook g4 I finally got xubuntu jaunty up and running. the problem is it wont update anything when i run sudo apt-get update it fails to fetch anything from the repos. also when i go to aplications software sources it wont let me check the important security updates tab at all.I installed ubuntu hardy on my g4 powermac and that runs just fine but it doesn't work correctly on my ibook so i would really like to stick with jaunty but i cant seem to find a solution.here is my sources.list
# deb cdrom:[Xubuntu 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release powerpc (20090423)]/ jaunty main
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
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Feb 20, 2011
So I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my 800 MHz iBook G4 with a Radeon 9200. After messing around with the xorg file, I was able to get compiz working well - but now the only problem I'm having is that scrolling in any window is ridiculously choppy - comparable to scrolling a window of a computer over remote desktop.
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May 11, 2010
I was easily able to install Ubuntu 10.04 (powerpc version) on my old iBook G4 just to see what it was like. After installation, I tried to connect to my Airport Extreme, and it didn't work.
For the past few days, I have been trying to research how to be able to connect to my Airport Extreme, and I have had no luck. Apparently, there is some sort of driver that I have to install called b43-fwcutter, but I have no clue where to find it or how to install it.
Btw, the iBook obviously isn't the only computer I have, so I am able to download necessary packages on other computers, and transport it with USB flashdrives.
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Jul 17, 2010
after spending more than 48 hours watching the install bar creep along, it has finally finished! but when i boot up my ibook it gos to a black screen and nothing happens.
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Sep 23, 2010
I have an old iBook G3 12" Dual USB (M7692LL/A) with 128Mb extra of RAM.
I was trying to boot Ubuntu from an external USB DVD and a FW CD drive, and the same thing happened. When I select the disc from the boot select screen and press enter, the colors get funky and it stays like that for minutes!
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May 17, 2011
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 alternate PPC on my iBook G4. I have to used this command upon installation or else it went to white screen which doesn't go away:
install video=ofonly
Installation went smooth till the end.
After reboot, it did prompt me to pick l or c, then yaboot screen appear. However, after I entered 'Linux' and hit Enter, nothing happened - blank screen.
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Jul 26, 2011
I have a iBook G3 that dosnt want to boot up at all. It makes the ding then a grey screen pops up. How do I install Ubuntu onto my iBook G3 with a external USB harddrive? is there a way?
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May 8, 2010
I have an iBook G3 and about 4 months ago after Mac OSX was corrupted I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on it. During the install the screen was divided and partly blacked out but when I installed it, the resolution was fine and the OS encompassed the whole screen.
After a few weeks everything on the screen started to turn pink until all the colours on the whole screen were a shade of pink! I decided that I would abandon my laptop as I had a fully functioning Ubuntu desktop which was my preferable computer to use anyway.
Following the release of Ubuntu 10.04 I decided that I would try a fresh install on my laptop. When I started the install I was disappointed to find that the screen was divided and everything was shaded pink. I went ahead with the install regardless hoping that everything would be fine once I installed Ubuntu. Once again I was let down, the screen was still divided and pink. I have included some pictures for you to have a look at.
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Jun 8, 2010
I set up Ubuntu on an old iBook G4, planning to use it as a front end to my main box. Installed 10.04 no problem, and from there, used Software Center to install MythTV Front end. Have done the same thing on a netbook, no problem.
However, on this PPC Mac, the front end works fine, navigation, menus, etc, until I try to play a recorded programme - the screen is blank, and I just get white noise from the speakers.
(BTW am trying Ubuntu as I don't have a Mac OS new enough to get any of the current Mac MythFrontEnd builds working)
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Apr 30, 2010
I have created a partition through Boot Camp, downloaded the 64 bit Intel installer for PC and Mac, verified the checksum, burned a CD from its image (on the second try), but when I try to boot up from that CD, rEFIt refuses because of a "legacy" problem. I assumed it would be a live CD, from which I could do the installation; am I wrong, is there another way to install from it? My MacBook Pro 5,3 is the one exception to having its own installation page.
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May 22, 2010
I installed Lucid PPC on a G4 iMac (lamp-style, 800 mhz) using the netinstall mini cd. The install environment booted and installed a base system without any problems. However, when trying to boot into the installed system, I get about a second of text after the yaboot screen, then darkness, then a full screen of bright red. Note that X is not installed, so the red screen is not an xorg problem. I've tried booting with "Linux nosplash video=ofonly", and "Linux single" but the problem occurs in both cases. I can use rescue mode on the cd and chroot into my system on the hard drive, but I'm not sure what steps to take from that point. It does seem to be a functional system when I'm chrooted, I can use apt etc.I don't want to give up on this installation and install karmic yet,
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Jan 12, 2010
I installed ubuntu 9.10 on my ibook g4 that i just bought recently (i hate mac xD) it all went perfect... the only things that im concerned about is if i close the lid it goes to sleep... but when i open it again i only see a black screen with a mouse on it! (hard reboot is required)
i read somewhere that you need to disable dri in a file named xorg.conf but i cant find that file and the topic where i read it was 5 years old so im not sure what to do now xD
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Aug 28, 2010
I am trying to install the PPC kernel on an iBook G3. The CDs boot up, however both the net-install and the regular install cd both freeze up after it looks for harddisks. The screen is blue. The box title says
"Loading additional components"
"0%"
"Retrieving lvm2-udeb"
I have no clue what to do. I am trying to get an error readout, but nothing but the power button works. It shuts it off. I check the system clock and it was wrong, but I got it set to the correct time. I don't have and OSX disks. I am wanting a full Linux HD. Please let me know how to trouble shoot. (I have seen that many people have no problem installing this on there macs. The os is still working on the os side, but I want to switch it to Linux.)
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Jul 17, 2011
since a whole week now i am trying to set up a Debian System on an old Ibook G4, with 1.2 GHz and 768 MB RAM. My Install Media is the Wheezy 8-CD-Set. I am not going to have anything besides Debian on the Notebook.
The Install process works fine until the Installation of the Core System. At the end of this process a window pops up and tells me that the CD with the title Wheezy-CD-1 or something like that is inserted and asks me to insert another CD or DVD now. Up to this point everything seems fine to me, but when i hit the "OK" Button the CD won´t come out of the Notebook, and besides that the Installer freezes. A progress bar, entitled with "executing cdset", is shown at a progress of 25% and does not move, also nothing happens when i try to cancel the process.
Whats the problem with my Installation? I already downloaded a second copy of the first Image and burned it again in case something was wrong with Installation Media, but the problem is still the same.
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Apr 30, 2010
I am running a web server on my old iMac5,1, which is also my main computer, but I'm having troubles. I upgraded to Lucid because Hardy kept dropping my Internet, so my server would not work. However, I have a different problem now. Everytime I log into Ubuntu, it eventually lags in the GUI. Sometimes, it even freezes entirely. On my newer Macbook Pro5,3, running from a Live CD, it freezes there to. It never froze in Ubuntu Hardy or Ubuntu Jaunty. What is causing this constant freezing?
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May 4, 2010
I have installed 10.04 on my MacBook Pro 6,2, and am trying to access some files stored in my User directory on the OS X partition of the laptop. I get a permission-denied error, but I figured this was a similar issue to the one mentioned in the stickied "How to Install Ubuntu 9.04 on Intel-Based Macs" thread.However, the suggest fix,Code:sudo usermod -u 501 -g 20 richarddoesn't exactly work for me. I tried this, but found myself suddenly logged out of my main account. On the log-in screen, only my second account showed up. Luckily, I was able to log into that, and re-usermod my main account back to it's original userid number.I am guessing that my strange error had to do with the abnormal (for ubuntu, at least) userid?
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May 22, 2010
I've just installed Kubuntu 9.10 on a friends powerbook g4 and it's running wonderfully. I don't want to upgrade to Lucid, I tried it and it ran not so good on this computer. How can I tell it to stop offering to upgrade to the next release? (I only want the automatic upgrade notification to appear for normal upgrades and not include Lucid, or have Lucid option to appear at all).
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Jun 21, 2010
I searched through a lot of threads on whether its safe to upgrade from a working Karmic install to Lucid via the upgrade manager. I found a few threads from around 1 month ago where some said it worked, others said they had problems with grub etc.
Does anyone know the current status of this? I would like to upgrade to Lucid but I don't know if its safe. Would it be better to use an install CD instead of the upgrade manager? Do I need to manually install grub rather than let the install program do it? (I think the upgrade manager doesn't give an option it just installs grub after the upgrade)
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Jul 19, 2010
I have been using netatalk to use my old LaserWriter PS 4/600 with Kubuntu.verything was fine until I upgraded to Lucid.Now, when I go to restart netatalk, I get
Code:
user@machine:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/netatalk restart
Restarting Netatalk Daemons (this will take a while)Stopping Netatalk Daemons: afpd cnid_metad papd timelord
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