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Experience Installing Ubuntu "Dapper Drake" on PowerMac G5?
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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 256515" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>Well, an update. Not so good so far. I downloaded the live CD, burned it and loaded it into my Mac. Then I restarted and after a bit of fiddling (have to hold down the OPTION key while booting) I was able to select the CD and boot from it. The initial loader came up and so I know that the CD burn was sane. I hit ENTER and off it went. It churned through all the expected startup stuff, I saw X Windows come up (the distinctive "X" cursor showed up in the middle of my screen) and then.... well, it sort of stopped. The "X" was replaced with a proper pointer arrow head, the screen painted itself a flaming red color, and that was it. It just sat there, and sat there, and sat there. </p><p></p><p>Finally, I clicked a button on my mouse. Now I have never seen a kernel panic on my Mac, but I am guessing that this is what happened at that point, since immediately after clicking, the fans on my G5 suddenly revved up to full throttle, making enough noise to drive any living soul out of the room. The Mac did not respond to keyboard, mouse OR the on/off switch. I had to turn off the power bar to kill the infernal noise.</p><p></p><p>So, not much success, and it left me a little scared. Would OS X boot again? Thankfully it did. I am not sure I am going to take any further steps with Dapper Drake!</p><p></p><p>...unless of course someone else has had this experience and knows just what the trouble was. If so, please let me know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 256515, member: 17052"] Well, an update. Not so good so far. I downloaded the live CD, burned it and loaded it into my Mac. Then I restarted and after a bit of fiddling (have to hold down the OPTION key while booting) I was able to select the CD and boot from it. The initial loader came up and so I know that the CD burn was sane. I hit ENTER and off it went. It churned through all the expected startup stuff, I saw X Windows come up (the distinctive "X" cursor showed up in the middle of my screen) and then.... well, it sort of stopped. The "X" was replaced with a proper pointer arrow head, the screen painted itself a flaming red color, and that was it. It just sat there, and sat there, and sat there. Finally, I clicked a button on my mouse. Now I have never seen a kernel panic on my Mac, but I am guessing that this is what happened at that point, since immediately after clicking, the fans on my G5 suddenly revved up to full throttle, making enough noise to drive any living soul out of the room. The Mac did not respond to keyboard, mouse OR the on/off switch. I had to turn off the power bar to kill the infernal noise. So, not much success, and it left me a little scared. Would OS X boot again? Thankfully it did. I am not sure I am going to take any further steps with Dapper Drake! ...unless of course someone else has had this experience and knows just what the trouble was. If so, please let me know. [/QUOTE]
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