Knoppix on Mac

[fleny68]

How is this different from OS X which is the latest MAC OS and is based on Linux?

Less thanWindows XP is different from MacOSX

MacOSX is not linux based, but BSD based.

MacOSX and Linux are two unix like implementation. But different implementation.

[A. Jorge Garcia]

Oh, so Mac OS X is based on BSD.

I see says the blind man!

EDIT: Is BSD considered Linux? I didn't think so....

Thanx,
AJG

[fleny68]

A k-mib-ppc-pre11 has been uploaded.

It is more buggy than the pre10, but the G5 kernel is compiled in 64bits instead of 32 bits.

[g lang]

Hi , I have a powermac 7300 with Debian installed.
But I 've never been able to install and run X.( I get scsi errors....a long story ... )
I d'loaded Knoppix for powerpc thinking I'd be able to install it (I have Knoppix running on my XP laptop )
During the install for the Debian I didn't get the option to keep the Mac OS so it boots straight to Linux (only text based )
So , here's the thing.....Can I install the Knoppix over the top of the current Linux????
I can't boot from CD (or floppy for that matter ) I have'nt yet found a way of doing this .Obviously I dont have the Mac start up options as Mac OS doesn't exist on this m/c any more.
TIA GL

[ziyad]

Knoppix MIB PPC beta worked wonderfully on my iMAC G3 with slot loading CD

Any one know about a gaim version for knoppix that will work on mac. this bring me to another question do i have to get different files or teh same file will work on macs as well

plus updated sources.list file is needed, all the mentioned sites r not working.

whats the root password. i need to make changes to file permissions

[solidsnake31990]

im downloading it right now and im going to test it out on my powerbook 3400c

[walter_f]

im downloading it right now and im going to test it out on my powerbook 3400c

So let us know how things are going with Knoppix MiB PPC on your PowerBook. Good luck.

A more recent version of a Deb-based Linux Live CD for Mac PowerPC has been made available lately, Gnoppix. Gnoppix is very close to Knoppix in its concept, but based on the Gnome desktop instead of KDE.

Note that Gnoppix 0.9.3 is labeled as "developer version" (i.e., Beta).

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GNOPPIX Developer version 0.9.3b3 Hoary is out (2005-01-20)

The Gnoppix project proudly presents a new beta of version 0.9.3 of the Gnoppix linux live cd. 0.9.3 comes for PowerPC, AMD64 and Intel i386 Platforms. The version comes with the lastest Gnome-Software Gnome 2.9.3 and Xorg.
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Gnoppix.org

Downloads of 0.9.3b2 and 0.9.3b3 available here:

Gnoppix Beta

As Gnoppix co-operates with Ubuntu Linux, "Hoary" is the code name for the developer versions of Ubuntu as well as Gnoppix.

I could not find out yet which Mac hardware Gnoppix for PowerPC supports at the moment. I suppose that most of New World machines will do fine, but which ones of the Old World Macs remains to be seen.

Best regards to all,

Walter.

[boehmb]

So, Walter, have you tried the gnoppix-ppc version on your Powerbook yet? I have a G4-500 with 1 GB ram and an nVidia Geforce 4MX card installed and would like to try the live-cd on my Mac. Hope to hear from you soon...

Brad

[boehmb]

Or, has anyone else booted the ppc-gnoppix on a Mac? I assume since it's a live cd, it doesn't touch the hard drive. Right?

[walter_f]

So, Walter, have you tried the gnoppix-ppc version on your Powerbook yet? I have a G4-500 with 1 GB ram and an nVidia Geforce 4MX card installed and would like to try the live-cd on my Mac. Hope to hear from you soon...

Brad

Well, Brad,

I'm not the PowerBook 3400 guy (I were just replying to solidsnake31990, who's the PBook owner).

I'm the PowerMac G3 Desktop guy instead

Your equipment (G4 with much RAM) looks great for a test of Gnoppix PPC (and comfortably sufficient for all the other PPC distributions as well, whenever you choose to do an installation eventually). You should be able to boot the Gnoppix Live CD just by holding down the "c" key. A Live CD is supposed not to touch the hard drive and the installed software on it in any way. But of course, I cannot guarantee anything.

As soon as I have had access to a Mac G4 (such a machine is my first choice), I will give Gnoppix a try and then I will post my experiences here. This might be one or two weeks from now, though.

Regards,

Walter.