I dual boot my G3's with OS X & Debian ('Mint PPC' version - see
http://www.mintppc.org/about ).I can't see the page you have linked to but Clark Martins advice is good. I have never been able to use the Ubuntu Live CD's on my original '98 bondi blue G3 but it does work on my '99 'DV' vesion. Is it the live CD you are using? If so I think you will need to opt for an alternate install cd instead. If you can partition part of the 53GB for the linux install and for Linux SWAP before you start (e.g from OS X) that will be easiest, as partitioning during an install is not easy without a live cd. Best Conal On Jan 5, 7:12 am, Clark Martin <cm...@sonic.net> wrote: > 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
