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!!Installing Ubuntu Breezy Badger on an OldWorld G3 Mac PPC.
!Preamble
-I got given a G3 Server a while back, and finally got around to making a [mac-to-VGA|http://www.hardwarebook.net/adapter/av/macvideotovga.html] adapter for it. Specs are 300MHz PowerPC, 192M ram, 5G SCSI drive. Plus the usual on-board serial ports, network, sound, DTB keyboard and single button mouse. It was running MacOS9 and came with MacOS8 install CD's. In the time I've had it I've tried Debian, Warty, Warty kubuntu and most recently the Breezy preview. Breezy is awesome, and I'll probably install
Breezy kubuntu with a nice OSX theme as soon as
it's officially released
.
+I got given a G3 Server a while back, and finally got around to making a [mac-to-VGA|http://www.hardwarebook.net/adapter/av/macvideotovga.html] adapter for it. Specs are 300MHz PowerPC, 192M ram, 5G SCSI drive. Plus the usual on-board serial ports, network, sound, DTB keyboard and single button mouse. It was running MacOS9 and came with MacOS8 install CD's. In the time I've had it I've tried Debian, Warty, Warty kubuntu and most recently Breezy kubuntu with a nice OSX-like
theme (
it looks a lot like OSX, Cairo informs me it doesn't behave at all like their school Mac
's so I guess I need some time on a real OSX desktop to get the behaviour right. I've never used OSX
.)
!Preparation
Boot up the MacOS install CD and run the partition tool. Make a single partition just big enough to hold MacOS and leave the rest of the drive unallocated. I allowed 200M but it's only using 110M so this could have been smaller, and it doesn't need to be any bigger. Install MacOS, leaving off all the optional components. The only thing you need is Stuffit and a browser which are both part of the minimal MacOS8 install.
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Option-F1 to get back to the installer, and tell it to go ahead and reboot.
-When the machine reboots the BootX dialog should come up straight away. Hoary seemed to find it's own rootfs but Breezy doesn't, so type "root=/dev/sda6" in the kernel parameters box. If you want the pretty ubunto
splash screen, you should also add
"quiet splash" in here
. Press tab until the Linux button is highlighted then click on the “Save as default” button. Then click Linux.
+When the machine reboots the BootX dialog should come up straight away. Hoary seemed to find it's own rootfs but Breezy doesn't, so type "root=/dev/sda6" in the kernel parameters box. If you want the pretty ubuntu
splash screen then
"quiet splash" should do it
. Press tab until the Linux button is highlighted then click on the “Save as default” button. Then click Linux.
Ubuntu should proceed through the rest of the install as usual.
!Other hints
-If you want a more OSX-like desktop install KDE (either download it in synaptic or install from a kubuntu CD). I haven't figured out how to theme Gnome to look and behave like OSX yet
.
+If you want a more OSX-like desktop install KDE (either download it in synaptic or install from a kubuntu CD).
If you only have a one-button mouse, F11 and F12 on the keyboard will act as the middle and right mouse buttons.
