Article:		Why Install Linux on Your Mac?
Subject:		Bootable Linux PPC Distro with Live Filesystem
Date:		2004-12-02 18:02:03
From:		williamverna
Great article by the way Turnbull. It got me thinking about when I first began using Red Hat Linux almost ten years ago. Do you, or anyone else who runs Linux-on-Mac, know if there is a bootable Linux PPC distro with a live filesystem on the cdrom that I can run on my PowerBook to test drive? Also, does anyone know if it is be possible to dual boot the PowerBook into Linux if I install Linux on an external firewire drive, which I could install an EXT3 or ReiserFS partition? Or would I have to split my HFS+ slices to make room for an EXT3 primary partition on the Mac's internal disk? Also, would I need to install GRUB to bootstrap whatever disk in order to run Linux? Time for me to really see if the hype really is as good as what the Linux-on-Mac advocates say! Thanks in advance ;)

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• Bootable Linux PPC Distro with Live Filesystem
  2004-12-03 03:57:19  Maethor [View]
  
  
  Do you, or anyone else who runs Linux-on-Mac, know if there is a bootable Linux PPC distro with a live filesystem on the cdrom that I can run on my PowerBook to test drive?
  
  
  There's some info on the various live ditros for ppc here:
  
  http://homepage.mac.com/bner/iblog/B1570693677/C1271976503/E1995539341/
  
  According to the blog entry, only Gentoo's worked.