[geeks] Ubuntu on iMac 450 DV+ model, APC UPS question

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:09:51PM -0600, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Today I scored an Indigo iMac 450 MHz w/hd & 640 Meg RAM for $28 at
> Princeton University, but the O/S was scrubbed. I tried to install
> Ubuntu for powerpc, but it wouldn't quite run from the CD image. It
> would boot, prompt me for a command (in grub?) to select a boot
> image, grind away for a while, then just sort of hang, without any
> meaningful display on the screen. During boot up, I saw the Ubuntu
> logo animatiuon in glorious color, but never the login/desktop.
>
> ANyone have any ideas?

As someone else has already mentioned, NetBSD, or, my favorite use
of an old iMac...  ofpong. =)

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org