On Jan 4, 2011, at 5:35 PM, logicfire wrote: > Hello and good evening, > > I have a purple iMac, 333MHz with 384MB RAM, and I have been trying to > attempt Simon Royal's triple boot experience. (http:// > www.lowendmac.com/ed/royal/10sr/triple-boot-ppc-mac.html)
Note that the 333MHz iMac is one of the first block of iMacs and tends to be problematic with some things that later G3 iMacs don't have a problem with. > Some of the issues I've faced along the way have been my own, but this > new one seems to almost be a limitation of the iMac itself. When it > boots into Ubuntu 10.10, it is giving the same error three times "not > enough video RAM" before exiting to a prompt. That iMac has 6Mb of VRAM while the next generation of iMac has 8Mb. The newer one also has AGP video while it's unclear about your's but I suspect it isn't AGP. > > I was going to leave it alone, but then I saw Austin Leed's article > today about getting Ubuntu 10.10 to work on a 300MHz iBook. The early iBook has 4Mb of Video memory and it is AGP. I have put Debian on a 300MHz iBook (IIRC it only had the usual problem of having to manually configure the Xorg.conf file.) I've also put Ubuntu 9.04 on a Pismo (8Mb AGP) with little problem. > > Has anyone attempting this? If so, do you have any advice to share? I haven't tried Ubuntu 10 (yet) but 9 seemed to work pretty well. > > I currently have the mac's hard drive partitioned into 3: 1GB for > System 9, 6GB for OS X, and the remaining 53GB for storage and files. > You're going to have to free up a blank partition if you want to install a Linux distro. > Thanks, Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
