Error on Live CD

[DSFAN#1]

Hi, everyone, I'm trying to run Ubuntu on my G3 iMac. Well I got the live CD and burnt it. I started up on the live CD. My computer is starting up (being horribly slow btw is this normal?) I get to the desktop and go through what seems to be all the start-up procedures. But then for some reason my computer ejects the disk and everything freezes except i can still move the mouse cursor, just i can't click anything. I've tried this several times and the same thing happens each time. Please help.

BTW, this might have to do with it, I only have 192 Mb of RAM, while the site recommends to have 256Mb's So is it possible my computer runs out of RAM and due to that it just ejects the disk?

[Auria]

Hi, everyone, I'm trying to run Ubuntu on my G3 iMac. Well I got the live CD and burnt it. I started up on the live CD. My computer is starting up (being horribly slow btw is this normal?) I get to the desktop and go through what seems to be all the start-up procedures. But then for some reason my computer ejects the disk and everything freezes except i can still move the mouse cursor, just i can't click anything. I've tried this several times and the same thing happens each time. Please help.

BTW, this might have to do with it, I only have 192 Mb of RAM, while the site recommends to have 256Mb's So is it possible my computer runs out of RAM and due to that it just ejects the disk?

I have no clue why it ejects the disk, but if you don't have enough RAM you should use the alternate CD and not the LiveCD. It's not as nice-looking during install but requires much less RAM

[3rdalbum]

Hi, everyone, I'm trying to run Ubuntu on my G3 iMac. Well I got the live CD and burnt it. I started up on the live CD. My computer is starting up (being horribly slow btw is this normal?) I get to the desktop and go through what seems to be all the start-up procedures. But then for some reason my computer ejects the disk and everything freezes except i can still move the mouse cursor, just i can't click anything. I've tried this several times and the same thing happens each time. Please help.

BTW, this might have to do with it, I only have 192 Mb of RAM, while the site recommends to have 256Mb's So is it possible my computer runs out of RAM and due to that it just ejects the disk?

Your computer is not booting from the CD, it is booting into the Mac OS (and then it seems to be getting confused with the Linux partition on the disc).

You must hold down the C key as the computer starts up with the Ubuntu disc in the drive. If you have done everything correctly, you won't even see the Happy Mac.

Be aware too that the G3 iMacs have naff CD-ROM drives that don't like burnt CDs. If the drive sounds like it's struggling, try burning onto a "Music" CD-R or a CD-RW.

[DSFAN#1]

Your computer is not booting from the CD, it is booting into the Mac OS (and then it seems to be getting confused with the Linux partition on the disc).

You must hold down the C key as the computer starts up with the Ubuntu disc in the drive. If you have done everything correctly, you won't even see the Happy Mac.

Be aware too that the G3 iMacs have naff CD-ROM drives that don't like burnt CDs. If the drive sounds like it's struggling, try burning onto a "Music" CD-R or a CD-RW.


Hmm, it is possible that my CD drive is just old and is wearing out. But i DO have it burnt on a CD-R

ANd I DO hold the C key down as the computer starts up (i don't know any other way to start up on a disk) Also i AM not seeing the Apple sign with a white screen (the equivalent of the happy mac in OS X)

[pxwpxw]

It might pay to burn another cd in macosx using disk utility at the slowest speed you can get.