PowerPup:
Live CDs don't work (at least not the newer versions), but they will work in text mode as install CDs (well, the regular Ubuntu CD won't work, but the alternate CD does).
It's probably a video card issue, as I tried both Ubuntu 10.10 and Fedora 12 on a PowerBook Pismo, and after a little bit of fighting there, it works OK (there is no 3D acceleration for ATI Rage 128, which is making it rather slow).
This seems to be a common problem with Xorg not detecting older hardware properly. I guess the latest versions are optimized for more modern hardware, therefore dropping/deprecating support for older H/W out of necessity.
Well, it makes for a good learning experience, anyway!
I can see if an older version of Ubuntu would work (I hate to run such an old version, as the point of all this is to get the machine running a more up to date OS than Apple will allow).
Such is life...
c
Live CDs don't work (at least not the newer versions), but they will work in text mode as install CDs (well, the regular Ubuntu CD won't work, but the alternate CD does).
It's probably a video card issue, as I tried both Ubuntu 10.10 and Fedora 12 on a PowerBook Pismo, and after a little bit of fighting there, it works OK (there is no 3D acceleration for ATI Rage 128, which is making it rather slow).
This seems to be a common problem with Xorg not detecting older hardware properly. I guess the latest versions are optimized for more modern hardware, therefore dropping/deprecating support for older H/W out of necessity.
Well, it makes for a good learning experience, anyway!
I can see if an older version of Ubuntu would work (I hate to run such an old version, as the point of all this is to get the machine running a more up to date OS than Apple will allow).
Such is life...
c