help im new..

[ronin411484]

hello all, so after a fair amount of reading, i have taken the plunge into what hopes to be fun, i downloaded xubuntu 6.06 dapper drake. and burnt the iso to a disk like i read about and then stuck it into my apple g4 tower. 450 mhz ppc.

however when i reboot and hold c..
the system just seems to hang, the screen stays dark, so i cant figure out whats going on
reset my pram... (cmd. option, p, r)
reboot with c held again, and yet no go?

am i doing anything wrong?

or do you maybe have any help?

thanks all

[alfalfa31]

oops...

[alfalfa31]

Did you go through a complete install, or did you boot from the live CD? Or have you gotten that far yet?

[ronin411484]

i believe its the live cd that i have, not a full install, i suppose im trying to install right now

[alfalfa31]

Are you doing the burning from Mac OS (and if so, which version) or are you doing it from Windows?

[ronin411484]

burning from mac os 10.4.11

[alfalfa31]

I know this might insult your intelligence (and if so, I apologize), and should have asked it in the last message, but what method did you use to burn it? Did you dump the file to the disk, or did you go through the process for making a disk from an ISO?

[ronin411484]

No worries... my intelligence is unharmed.
I went through the process of opening disk utility and then selecting the .iso and then selected burn at the 8x speed. As far as i know thats how i was supposed to do it. I may e mistaken though.

[alfalfa31]

Hmmm...

Sounds like you did the right stuff, so is your disk bad?

[ronin411484]

Well when I boot into OSX without holding anything, the disk shows up on desktop.
Furthermore, when I burnt the disk, I also selected the disk verify after burning and everything came through fine. I have no idea what's going on.

[alfalfa31]

At this point, your guess is as good as mine. Do you have another box in which you can test it? Even if it belongs to a friend...

[ronin411484]

well perhaps.. but im not too sure ill try

[ronin411484]

At this point, your guess is as good as mine. Do you have another box in which you can test it? Even if it belongs to a friend...

ok well i tried the disk in a lap top.. weld down c, during boot up, and it gave me a folder icon with flashing "?" Thenafter about 30 seconds or so, OSX booted..

[oswaldkelso]

hello all, so after a fair amount of reading, i have taken the plunge into what hopes to be fun, i downloaded xubuntu 6.06 dapper drake. and burnt the iso to a disk like i read about and then stuck it into my apple g4 tower. 450 mhz ppc.

however when i reboot and hold c..
the system just seems to hang, the screen stays dark, so i cant figure out whats going on
reset my pram... (cmd. option, p, r)
reboot with c held again, and yet no go?

am i doing anything wrong?

or do you maybe have any help?

thanks all

It maybe that you'll have better luck with a non graphical Alternate install CD, I've found they are easier, faster and less buggy. I use the Debian one for setting up pretty much all my distro installs, not pretty but works a treat.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/hardy/release/

[ronin411484]

It maybe that you'll have better luck with a non graphical Alternate install CD, I've found they are easier, faster and less buggy. I use the Debian one for setting up pretty much all my distro installs, not pretty but works a treat.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/hardy/release/

i can definately try that, im really new at all this and would really love to try my hand at linux and all the fun things that go with it. its irritating to be slowed down by little bugs, but its a challenge