[NBLUG/talk] LiveCD PPC (was Hello)

[Lincoln Peters]

On Sep 14, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Troy Arnold wrote:

> Related to all this apple talk (no pun) what are your opinions of a  
> good
> liveCD for PowerPC ?
>
> The problem:
>
> My friend's powerbook is *really* sensitive to even slightly scratched
> optical discs.  It's interesting that it remains a problem even after
> replacing the optical drive.  I'd like to run a LiveCD to see if it  
> might
> perhaps be an OS issue.  If I load kaffeine or mplayer or something  
> into
> RAM, I'm hoping to be able to remove the liveCD and try a few of these
> 'unreadable' discs.

I have a G3 iMac that refused to boot from a home-burned Debian net- 
install CD, but had no difficulty booting from a set of Knoppix/PPC  
CD's I picked up at a general meeting a while ago.

The current version of Ubuntu (7.04) doesn't appear to be available  
for PowerPC, but the previous version (6.10) is.


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