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I guess I was unfortunate to get a model with half the expected VRAM, but it was the only one available to me, hrm.
About swap, I did not set a swap partition since I did not have a free partition...

I have not, but wouldn't that force me to have no acceleration at all? Between acceleration-less (3D or 2D) Linux and OS X 10.4.11, I'll keep the latter.

"returning from PROM init" never happened...

I got the machine a few months ago obviously used and with the front feet broken. The CRT makes a weird spring-like noise when turning on and after a while overly dark screens (like a full-on...

12.04 does not boot at all, hangs at "Calling Quiesce".

Just got alternate Lubuntu 13.04 for powerpc. Amazingly sluggish and not working at all, simply using the file manager causes it to stop responding, and I simply have no idea what's wrong with my...

24 bpp. 16 didn't work (pseudo-halt with garbled or no screen) and 15 isn't supported by DRI. At 24 bpp, there isn't enough VRAM.

If there was only something to X to start properly at 16 bpp, that...

That's what I did, although with Xubuntu 12.10 alternate (which didn't install X or any other package at all because the package selection screen skipped a few seconds after i just started reading it...

Well.. I finally got the whole Xubuntu package installed and xorg.conf in place.. The system takes a considerably long time to boot (compared to Debian and even OS X 10.4.11), landing me in a login...

The 12.10 mini iso boots fine, but the installation halts after trying to download the release notes, leaving me with an empty purple background.

EDIT: I'm sorry, nevermind. The installation had...

The latest Debian businesscard ISO boots into the install procedure fine. Is there a mini.iso for 12.10? I can only find a full 700mb ISO.

Just wrote that ISO to my USB and booted off it, tried booting with "cli video=ofonly" to the same effect.

I'm not booting from a hard drive, I'm booting from USB, which worked fine with Debian mini.iso but it doesn't seem to be working with the Ubuntu ones, I've tried DD'ing 12.04 LTS twice onto it now...

This is at the initial boot of the mini iso. Install process never starts.



I haven't. My PRAM is being stored properly since I replaced the iMac's battery just a few months ago, and Debian PPC...

I don't know if I'm supposed to post here or make a new thread, but when I try installing the Xubuntu 12.04 PPC (32bit) mini.iso it halts on "Calling quiesce..." and doesn't do anything. Couldn't get...

I'm sorry, but what am I supposed to download and burn to a CD/USB, then? It's not very clear.

Hi, sorry for sort of hijacking this thread with my lack of experience,

I own a Summer 2000 450mhz Ruby iMac G3 with 1GB RAM, currently triple-booting 9.2.2, 10.4.11 and Debian/MintPPC (which...