crayZsaaron
August 16th, 2009, 08:49 PM
I'm running an old Apple eMac PowerPC G4. 700 MHz processor with 640 MB of RAM. The video card is an NVIDIA GeForce2 MX with 32 MB of VRAM. I decided to download Ubuntu, and I'm having a damn hard time trying to install it. When I finally got the machine to boot from the Ubuntu disk (I had a hard time with this because Apple decided to make it as difficult as possible... I miss my old Windows PC), I got absolutely nothing.
I tried it the second time and got the "boot:" prompt. If I use the "live-nosplash-powerpc" command at that point (I found that at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCKnownIssues ), It gets past the white screen, past the "loading" screen, checks a bunch of random things, and then I get a black screen. After a few minutes, I hear some weird african drums and then a music-like thing with some more drums... I still see nothing. I tried waiting it out for 15 minutes, and nothing happened.
If I use the command that it suggests if you're having problems (live video=something), I see the loading screen for a second and then I get a blank screen, and nothing. If I don't do anything and let it do its default thing, the same thing happens as if I use the live-nosplash-powerpc command. Can someone help me get past this?
I downloaded the PowerPC version at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/9.04/release/ (desktop version). Should I try the alternate version?
Before, I used Ubuntu with a Windows machine and it worked perfectly with no flaws. I want the same for this computer, because if I have to use Mac OS X for 2 more seconds I may shoot someone.
Help would be greatly appreciated.
I tried it the second time and got the "boot:" prompt. If I use the "live-nosplash-powerpc" command at that point (I found that at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCKnownIssues ), It gets past the white screen, past the "loading" screen, checks a bunch of random things, and then I get a black screen. After a few minutes, I hear some weird african drums and then a music-like thing with some more drums... I still see nothing. I tried waiting it out for 15 minutes, and nothing happened.
If I use the command that it suggests if you're having problems (live video=something), I see the loading screen for a second and then I get a blank screen, and nothing. If I don't do anything and let it do its default thing, the same thing happens as if I use the live-nosplash-powerpc command. Can someone help me get past this?
I downloaded the PowerPC version at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/9.04/release/ (desktop version). Should I try the alternate version?
Before, I used Ubuntu with a Windows machine and it worked perfectly with no flaws. I want the same for this computer, because if I have to use Mac OS X for 2 more seconds I may shoot someone.
Help would be greatly appreciated.