Re: Trying to breathe new life into an eMac

2009-05-09 Thread Clark Martin
Clark Martin wrote: > I've installed Debian 5, Fedora 9 and Yellow Dog 5 (I think it is) on > various G3s. I have had both Debian and Fedora playing music although > you have to install an MP3 library but before you can you have to figure > out that you do need it and what it is. I've played

Re: Trying to breathe new life into an eMac

2009-05-09 Thread Clark Martin
Adrian wrote: > Thanks for the into. I have Ubuntu installed on a PC and it couldn't > have been easier... all I did was run the installer and *bam* it just > works. I didn't have to configure a single thing. I guess I was hoping > that something similarly easy would be available for the eMac. I f

Re: Trying to breathe new life into an eMac

2009-05-09 Thread Adrian
I checked out some Linux forums and found a lot of horror stories from folks who tried to install YDL, Fedora, and Debian on their eMacs. The universal theme from each story was that the install seemed to go well, and then when the install was complete, the screen went "black" and that was it. I g

Re: Trying to breathe new life into an eMac

2009-05-09 Thread Adrian
Thanks for the into. I have Ubuntu installed on a PC and it couldn't have been easier... all I did was run the installer and *bam* it just works. I didn't have to configure a single thing. I guess I was hoping that something similarly easy would be available for the eMac. I found a web page from 2

Re: Trying to breathe new life into an eMac

2009-05-09 Thread Clark Martin
BMRR wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have an old eMac that I'd like to put back into service. It's taking > up space, and I can't bear to part with it, so why not make use of it? > It's got a G4 processor (1 GHz I think?), and I think the RAM is > either 512MB or 768MB... maybe even 1GB but I can't reme

Trying to breathe new life into an eMac

2009-05-09 Thread BMRR
Hi folks, I have an old eMac that I'd like to put back into service. It's taking up space, and I can't bear to part with it, so why not make use of it? It's got a G4 processor (1 GHz I think?), and I think the RAM is either 512MB or 768MB... maybe even 1GB but I can't remember for sure. It curren