In this video a complete adventure with linux on a powerbook and we kill a good working mac powerbook 12 inch for this project this video will be full with surprises. I have experience installing linux on a pc, and thought it shouldnt be too difficult to install on a mac powerbook g3. Has anyone had success with running linux on g4 powerbook. First off, you dont simply install the linux with a click of the mouse. Hi everybody, i have a wallstreet powerbook g3 and it wont boot off of cdos 9. I wanted to try breezy on my old wallstreet powerbook. I plan on going over how to install linux on this machine. G4500 wallstreet and lombard upgrades, icurve notebook stand, tibook ram install, and more. This step is absolutely essential to being able to. How to set up wireless networking with ubuntu on a g4. The powerbook 3400 has the standard, rather chunky, keyboard featured on several other models of powerbook including the powerbook 5300. Kings gambit powerbook 2020 the major part of the material on which the kings gambit powerbook 2020 is based is sourced from the engine room of.
How would you install debian linux on a powerbook g4. Powerbook g3 wallstreet old world mac linux installation. Download yoobook saps best selling workbooks are now available in digital format. There are a number of components in the powerbook g3 wallstreet that can be cost effectively upgraded. Whats the best linux distro for mac powerbook g3 lombard. For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. Do you want to breathe life back into your old powerbook or powerpc machine. Due to oddities in the open firmware implementation on the wallstreet powerbook g3, it commonly uses bootx in order to load linux, and the installer realizes this. Other distributions such as debian, mandrake, yellow dog, and suse can also be made to run on the 5300 if the standard linux kernel is replaced with one compiled with support for the nubus architecture.
The first generation titanium powerbook g4 tibook was the first powerbook that could use a standard notebook optical drive. What versions of the macos do the powerbook g3 models support. The powerbook g3 is a series of laptop macintosh personal computers designed, manufactured and sold by apple computer, inc. Mac os, win98me, win2k and linux are all fully supported. If you have questions or additional hints, feel free to contact me the page was originally written in spring 2005, when the. Revive a powerpc mac running linux the mac observer. Well, im about five to eight years behind the curve on working with an apple powerbook g3 wallstreet laptop. The powerpc version of mint hasnt been updated in years, but heres a link to the communitymaintained ubuntu powerpc port. Preparing your macs hard drive for linux, larry stotler, linux on the low. Apple powerbook g3 wallstreet pdq for sale official. The powerbook g3 series, code named wallstreet, was designed. Basically, if you can run it on a 6100, you can probably run it, with some effort, on a powerbook 5300. Ubuntu is one of the easiest linux distros to install.
Wall street g3 powerbook os upgrade march 2006 forums. I tried downloading the ppc livecd version of ubuntu. It comes with os x tiger, which is fine, but slow, and a little outdated when it comes to internet browsing. This take on linux is developed in brazil and is based on the debian stable branch. Powerbook g3 233 wallstreet specs g3 serieswallstreet. Top nasa images solar system collection ames research center.
Ppc is the whole new world to me and i think its going to be a rewarding one. Personally i found it no quicker than leopard or tiger, unless theres an absolute specific need for linux software i would stick to osx, particularly tiger if. Powerbook g3 wallstreet osx compatible with pcmcia belkin wifi 802. Today im going to explain how to set up wireless networking on g4 powerbook running ubuntu. Find answers to whats the best linux distro for mac powerbook g3 lombard. The design of the rear ports is as in the picture below. Which linux version works perfectly with my powerbook g4. Its an oddly specific post that will probably help around two people a year, but since i had to do it recently i figured i would share my process that i use getting this thing working. Most systems use this kernel flavour, which supports the powerpc 601, 603, 604, 740, 750, and 7400 processors.
The old powerbook g3 series notebooks arent without a few quirks when running opensuse linux, but for the most part they are good performers. Mac powerbook g4 titanium ive wasted about fifteen cds and 6 days trying to figure this out the old macs dont seem to deal with linux. I wont go into the finer details of partitioning the disk, since. Apple introduces what weve all been waiting for hackaday. Twenty years ago this week, apple computer released the powerbook 500 laptop, a highstyle model aimed at providing a mobile desktop. This is my first time working with ubuntu or linux, so please be patient. As promised, heres the story of how i eventually got ubuntu linux 5. Insert your index fingers inside the expansion bays and search for the two ribbed tabs on the underside of the upper case. Usually, when the powerbook goes to sleep, it wakes up when i move the mouse cursor over to it. Once it boots up, which could take some time, simply follow the instructions to get your powerpc mac up and running using linux. Installationoldworldmacs community help wiki ubuntu. Mac os powerbook g3 series installrestore cd mac abandonware from 1999 mac os powerbook g3 series installrestore cd. In this tutorial ill show how you can put ubuntu linux on a powerbook g4 and resurrect one of these durable old laptops from the dead.
Is there an ubuntu version i can use for the mac like there is for my pc. G4500 wallstreet and lombard upgrades, icurve notebook. Browse our wallstreet ram selection for a chip that suits your need for speed. Pros and cons of using linux on a wallstreet powerbook, larry stotler, linux on the low end, 2008. Hello do you know it the pcmcia card belkin wifi 802. Ubuntu is pretty resource hungry the lightest linux is probably debian running openbox, i did such an install on my pb 1. Six atari arcade classics can now be played on your pc in atari arcade hits. During its lifetime, the powerbook went through several major revisions and redesigns, often being the first to incorporate features that would later become standard in competing laptops. Interactive and selfmarking, students can now extend their learning on their own.
Ive been giving synergy a good solid workout since monday morning, and its held up like a trooper, with only two problems, both minor. All apple power macintosh systems up to and including the g4 use processors supported by this kernel. Firmwaredriver for broadcom wifi card, powerbook g4. The powerbook g3 was succeeded by the powerbook g4. Mac os powerbook g3 series installrestore cd macintosh. Powerbook g3 wallstreet osx compatible apple community. How to set up a multimonitor display on the mac with a. The rainbow logo was last seen on apple laptops with the wall street ii pdq powerbook, replaced by the lombard powerbook in may, 1999. Hold down the c button while booting to boot from the cd. I have a wall street g3 powerbook that ran ms office 98 with an 8. Kris shaffer since version 7, powerpc versions of suse linux have been conspicuously absent from the suse desktop lineup. I used to be familiar with apple mac computers in the mid to late 90s because the company i worked for used macs exclusively on the desktop.
Yoobook provides educational eworkbooks based on saps bestsellers. The powerbook g4 uses a powerpc chip, which limits your choices a lot in addition to the limited system memory. Tropico 6 gets the llama of wall street dlc and the. The tabs are located near the bottom corners of the keyboard.
This guide was created as an overview of the linux operating system, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter. Powerbooks have used standard sodimm ram and standard 2. The powerbook known as macintosh powerbook before 1997 is a family of macintosh laptop computers designed, manufactured and sold by apple computer, inc. Another 3500 games from mega and from correspondence chess have been added to this corpus. Its a bit mushy, meaning that the keys sink rather deeply when struck and so typing is a bit slower than with the later keyboards seen on the wall street and later powerbooks.
Hi all, i hope this is the correct place to post this. The llama of wall street dlc brings a wide range of ingame improvements and new features, including the option to manipulate the stock market. I recently bought an appareently new os 9 disk online. Up for sale is an apple powerbook g3 wallstreet pdq in very good condition that i have had for the past year now in my personal collection. James bought a powerbook g3 to the january 2006 hantslug meeting and wanted to have ubuntu installed on it.
The wallstreet powerbook g3 series additionally was the first powerbook line available buld to order, and as a result, there were many possible configurations of the powerbook g3233 wallstreet. It was the first laptop to use the powerpc g3 ppc740750 series of microprocessors, and was marketed as the fastest laptop in the world for its entire production run. It seems that with apples numbering scheme the machine is a powerbook5,6. This text describes the adventures i encountered while installing linux on an apple powerbook g4 15. Its a little complicated setting up the hard drive and probably not for the faint of heart. I have to migrate from using fedora core on i386 to a linux distro on ppc powerbook g3 lombard. The bottom line is that this old powerbook g3 is now running ubuntu hoary. I recently got a free powerbook g4 mac laptop off a friend who no longer uses it.
You can place a 256 mb chip in each one for half gigabyte of memory. Thank you for helping us maintain cnet s great community. Recommend me a distro for a preintel mac powerbook g4 laptop. Choose from asteroids, centipede, missile command, pong, super breakout, or tempest, each shown on the screen the way they looked when you first stood in front of them in an arcade and emulated with minute details such as asteroids inability to show three initials in the tenth spot on the high. I have made several upgrades to the unit and replaced the lcd panel with one procured from ifixit, since the original lcd went bad on the laptop a little while ago. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Once any macintosh portion of the installation is done, the computer reboots and continues with the linux installation process. Therefore, after installing linux but before rebooting the machine to run linux for the first time, it is necessary to copy to the os 9 partition the linux kernel and ramdisk image that have been customcreated for this particular powerbook g3 wallstreet and installed on the root partition. This is also the case with the second generation aluminum powerbook g4 albook and probably the case with the macbook too.
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