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As of today, I have given away somewhere near 40 old Macs with your lovely mint installed. Thank you for your efforts. After I posted the above "success story", I moved on to the...

I now have 16 fully functional Linux Mint G3's & G4's. I am giving them away to my colleagues. Thank you for each of your valuable tips and links.

You really do make the difference.

I can type...

When in doubt, try mint ppc (v 5, I think). I have just had some overnight success and now have 5 viable Linux Mint old MACs. PPC G3's & G4's. I am documenting the journey.

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Get this...

Yes, in fact, I will say that last night I had the light bulb of all light bulbs shine in my brain. At some point I made it into xorg.conf.new, edited it and rebooted. Still the same outcome.

BUT...

I feel your pain. I, too, have tried from soup to nuts on my Power Mac G3's & G4's.

Attached is what I get right before I am expecting to get to my very first desktop session. I have modified the...

Several of these:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_server_g3/stats/macserver_g3_350_bl.html


Several of these:
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I FINALLY got into root terminal via Control/Alt F1

Then I typed ls

I cd to snoop around the various directories.

I ended up back at /

I then typed VIEW xorg.conf.new

I would love to employ this (or even just edit mine) Xorg.conf if I could only get to a place to do so.

I have just installed now no less than 7 different versions of Linux on both G3/G4 towers. I...

I have G3/G4 Power Mac towers as well as single unit/monitor combo older G3 iMacs.

Here is what I see...

AND...to get a terminal:
ctl+alt F1

Not able to make that happen.

At black screen I bang the **** out of the keys and nothing. Is there a secret?

I have now had 2 of the Power Mac G4's install seamlessly, only to kick the bad display upon first launch.

My Squeeze install went wonderfully. Smooth. BUT...BUT, upon first launch I have a display issue. I can see a very pixel-filled bottom white bar where the taskbar should be, but that is where it...

There are random RAM allotments for the stockpile of machines I am working with. I try to make sure they have 512MB, but it's old PC133 or 100, so if I haven't been pack-ratting, some will likely...

There are random RAM allotments for the stockpile of machines I am working with. I try to make sure they have 512MB, but it's old PC133 or 100, so if I haven't been pack-ratting, some will likely...

Thank you. I am downloading it now. I am a Mac/WIN tech with sparse Linux experience here and there. In bursts during a project, then nothing for a year. I start the learning process over with each...

What is the best distro & instruction set to install Linux on Power Macs? I have Blue/White G3's and Gray/White G4's. I also have a ton of little blue/white cube iMac G3's.

Our company upgraded a...

What is the best distro & instruction set to install Linux on Power Macs? I have Blue/White G3's and Gray/White G4's. I also have a ton of little blue/white cube iMac G3's.

Our company upgraded a...

if you are still a user of this forum, could you go back into your archives and recall how you (if you) solved this problem? I have the same one 5 years later!

I suppose I am far too late to chime in, but I am trying (with some success) to convert an entire room of PPC G3, G4 and iMacs to Ubuntu. It's been a crap shoot to see which box will install and...