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Have you revisited this project? I did it on my Blue and white g3. I also got openbsd to work. I ordered a pci r7000 64meg card with dvi, s-video, and vga card. it won't boot into macOS with it (I think I screwed up a prior r7000 trying to flash it within osx to mac rom, so I found another one on ebay and am not going to try. I do have a r7000 32mb card in the machine now, which was flashed successfully years ago so I can have 2 video cards, one to run macos/osx, and one for openbsd and hopefully Adelie 1.0 b5. The Live CD didn't seem to recognize it, but when I booted it with the 32meg card that worked fine. I had hoped that I could just have both cards in, boot and just swap over to the dvi card but I think because it didn't load drivers during live-cd temp install, it didn't see it. Regardless, I'll keep messing with it. if it doesn't work I'll just relegate the 64meg card for when it's booted into openbsd.

If you want to know fun, try installing Debian SID on a beige G3. Mine has been upgraded to SSD, G4 upgrade, and Radeon Mac Edition. Yeah it is slow, but able to use LXDE as desktop, and Netsurf to browse the net some. I also have an iMac G5 and Debian SID 64-bit works ok. That is setup with Mate, and Arctic Fox is still quite slow on it.

I got a functioning used PC with this mobo for 20$. I thought it couldn't run 16GB ram sticks. They say this mobo's max ram is 32GB.

So I'm in a similar situation on a different device where the CPU is 64 bit and the bios is locked at 32 bit EFI. What did you specifically do to get the 64 bit bootable? Convert the HDD/SSD to MBR? I always run into trouble with the BIOS looking for 32 bit EFI and not finding it.

Hey so will installing linux allow me to use the full 4gb of ram? I have a weird hybrid 06 mac mini that someone had upgraded previously with a core 2 duo 5600 and a 160gb hdd. I have installed a broadcom crystal HD card so I can set it up as a headless plex server. It was previously used as my minecraft server. I would like to install a better cpu for a bit better power, but I have scrapped the DVD drive out of it and I would like to upgrade it to an SSD or even take out the HDD and just install it on a Flash drive, although IDK if it will boot like that. I really appreciate a more modern video on these as I have had mine sitting around for probably almost 10 years.

Why KDE? The hardware is already ancient for modern standards to handle system resources consumption of DE. Wouldn't Mate which is a for of good old Gnome 2 be better?

Well saved!👍👍

A vast improvement!👍👍

A neat build!👍👍

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A complex installation, but you got there!👍👍

Installing an SSD., would help.

A lucky find indeed!👍👍

A fine restoration and it may be possible to install a more powerful CPU..

Nice build. I have several FX processors and motherboards still in storage. I loved my FX rigs.

Hi i just stumbled upon your video, would you know how i could bypass the installer getting stuck on smp_core99_bringup_done?

Good job

How do i get to the hard drive/boot menu

Lives up to the name, you did tech things, kudos.

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I could install MX without any problems after making a USB with Rufus. But I guess the other Linux distributions require some work.

Why do you say it's an old Intel mac? If it's a 2006 Mac Mini it must be a Power PC (RISC - AIM); no Intel in here ! Aside of that, did you tried the C Key or Command C key at boot in to have the Mac give you the option of select the pen-drive as a bootable hard drive?

Does anybody know if there is a projected date for support for Rage128 video (MacG3 Blue and White) to be added to Adelie? Thanks.

Enjoyed the video. I have a 2005 Mac Mini, a 2006 running Snow Leopard and a Silicon M1 Mac Mini. I am trying to see if theres a way I can partition the drive on the 2006 so I can run OS 9 as well. I subscribed.

You already have the Mac OSX system installed. How do you install Adelie on a Mac with a blank hard disk?

Just found your channel. Excellent content. Another sub for you sir!

I did this with Ventura on a hard drive. Worst experience ever. It worked perfectly. Just ran like shit

I want to Install Adelie also in a powerbook g4 but in the 17 inches model . Instead of a cd, im booting to the partitions options where it shows the disk with penguin icon. But when i select it to boot, it returns to the same point, no matter how many times I select it. Any ideas what to do to make it boot to the installer? Thanks.

Too bad we don't have the links to download what to burn for installation or a small PDF with the procedure to follow... Dommage qu'on a pas les liens pour télécharger ce qu'il faut graver pour l'installation ou alors un petit PDF avec la procédure à suivre...

I use fedora 38 and boot directly from usb on my macbook late 2006 with no fuss. Fedora supports boot from 32 bit efi system on to 64 bit processors.

I've got a 32bit EFI iMac's from around the same era, I'm going to have to try this out on that, its a nice machine and a shame to see it sit around collecting dust.

I have an identical Mac Mini 2,1 running Gentoo as a server in my home lab for over a year now. Had the same T5600 CPU that I swapped for a T7400 from ebay because it had a hard time compiling GCC. Objectively it's not that great and I could easily run everything as containers on my other servers but why throw away a device that works perfectly fine.

I've been trying to do this on my dual 2.5GHz G5 but never got it to install. There were problems with the installer not working with the ethernet hardware and then the grub install would fail. Could you please include a link to the Debian ISO file you used to burn your installer DVD? I can only seem to find the Little Endian versioin pf Debian 11 ppc64.

Great video. I have 2,1 Mac Pro. Trying to put linux on and have same issue with not detecting usb boot media. Do you use a 32 bit version of linux dvd? If so once installed can it upgrade to 64bit? Thanks

mine is a dual g4-2ghz with pci-x fx5200agp 8 gb memory dual layer dvd drive

Is there a way I can get the untrusted signatures to force themselves to be trusted? It keeps saying untrusted signature and it refuses to install.

I've tried this with my 2.6 Early 08 and I couldn't get the installer to finish, just kept getting stuck at an Apple logo during the restarts. I tried again and it appeared to be doing the same thing, but I decided to leave it over night since it might just be taking an incredibly long time. Check it the next morning, nothing. Will have to try it again sometime with an SSD and see if that makes a difference.

mirror sites are broken im unable to get full packages only system-utils are availble ...

I really liked your video. I am working out a deal to get a titanium G4 myself and this video helped me to understand how easy it is to repair one of these in comparison to an iBook G3. It's nice to see a user serviceable prosumer laptop.

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I have two AMD FX-8350 systems. They are a more power hungry but they are great CPUs.

The resolution is so poor on this video despite the fact the TH-cam calls this a 1080HD video.

Why not use Firefox with flags to enable hardware acceleration and make sure you have all the updated mesa drivers installed and that nouveau is being used for acceleration?

How did you fix the nvidia issue? I’m stuck on the same error.

Hello, To sure sure, I'd like to know if you really move your drive from gpt to mbr? How your drive is partitioned now ? Regards, Egrep.

Very cool! I have the latest of these modela and also a 15’ that I upgraded with an mSata but use 10.5.8

Awesome, so strange to see modern KDE running on this PowerBook. It's also surprising to see how modern these laptops look even nowadays with those bezels!

I ve seen many variances in video response, depending on the linux versions and brandnames running in the same machine, say intel for example Mint and RedHat. I assume the release of ppc may be done using the most less demanding graphic card and video optimization is not existent, you have to find the right video drivers for ATI that I believe is the default video Card the G5 was sold as default. as you described the PPC releases are mostly abandoned so if you want to use better graphics the driver must be recompiled for this machine. I feel you can have the same performance between a Raspberry Pi and this machine. it is just a nostalgia issue other than that is useless for 2022.

Woah!!! So cool!