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tacob
07-12-2008, 10:28 AM
smyl,

just out of curiosity is there a reason there's no 8.10 image yet?

there's some stuff i want to test on it, to make sure it works...
and i dont really feel like rolling my own image...
motsteve
07-12-2008, 11:26 AM
What the hey is so hard about downloading the .iso? If you can't find it on the Canonical repos yet, I don't know that I would trust anyone else's version, anyway.
tacob
07-12-2008, 07:48 PM
I've seen the iso's up...
and smyl's images work in player...

i know there's workarounds for creating images w/ out workstation, but it's much easier just to download prebuilt ones...
smyl
07-14-2008, 03:01 AM
I made an image of both Alpha 1 & Alpha 2, but gnome fails to login on both of them, and i have been too busy to debug it, so I haven't posted them.
motsteve
07-30-2008, 03:53 AM
FYI,

The regular iso of Intrepid for PPC has install problems. It won't recognize your cdrom drive when it gets ready to install files onto the hard drive.

This may or may not be of interest depending on whether you are experimenting with vm's or if you do that and play around with regular installs also.
smyl
07-30-2008, 10:20 AM
I actually don't have any working mac hardware, if I got ram I could get this G3 iMac working, but the ram would be more then the machine is worth...

I haven't actually installed intrepid on anything yet other then VM's, but I do have a test box that I upgraded to it when alpha 1 was supposed to come out.

and for the record, 8.10a3 has issues with vmware too (gnome wont start)
motsteve
07-30-2008, 12:28 PM
Ram isn't expensive and a G3 is still a good working Mac. Put 10.4.11 on it along with any Linux and you have a very nice work station for most situations. If you do nothing but games, then buy a game machine. :-)

I would say that a great percentage of Linux users are running on "obsolete" pc's and mac's. It's fun to get a system working for only a few bucks and not have to throw away a perfectly good computer in the process.

I know you are concerned mainly with the vm aspects of all of this, but having a Linux system around helps you get a perspective on how it works when placed on a vm.
smyl
07-31-2008, 11:16 PM
Module Size: 256MB
US $36.99

so yeah, 512MB of ram
for ~$70

on a 266MHz G3

Doesn't seem worth it imho...
motsteve
08-01-2008, 01:19 PM
Where are you getting your RAM? I don't know what iMac G3 you have, but I don't see anything on OWC that would add up to more than $30.

http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Models.cfm?stype=Memory&1147

This is probably not the cheapest place either, but they are extremely reliable and honest. They may even have a video on how to install the stuff.
motsteve
08-01-2008, 01:49 PM
I just saw that if you had a Bondi blue or one of those then you would have one with PC-66 memory and that is expensive. I wouldn't upgrade either. That thing is a dog. If you're thinking Mac and want cheap and worth upgrading, consider a mini mac or the like. I just gave away my G3 B&W or else I would have sent you that. I already had 480M and a 80G drive in it along with the DVD R/W drive. I bet there's loads of people that will give you a Mac worth your trouble for free or practically free.
smyl
08-27-2008, 05:52 PM
Where are you getting your RAM? I don't know what iMac G3 you have, but I don't see anything on OWC that would add up to more than $30.

http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Models.cfm?stype=Memory&1147

This is probably not the cheapest place either, but they are extremely reliable and honest. They may even have a video on how to install the stuff.

I got the price from Crucial...

And yeah it is blue (not sure if bondi blue)
but it is one of those oldschool CRT ones...

I want to get a new iMac, and I'm really hoping the 24" ones have a quad core when I have the money...
motsteve
08-28-2008, 11:07 PM
I got the price from Crucial...

And yeah it is blue (not sure if bondi blue)
but it is one of those oldschool CRT ones...

I want to get a new iMac, and I'm really hoping the 24" ones have a quad core when I have the money...

Boy! That is fancy. Are you going to convert? If you just need a bang around mac just buy a used one. I have a G4 and an iMac. One is PPC and the other is Intel. If you are going for Linux dual boot and need it just to test out stuff for the forum, then you should go for the Intel macs because they'll give you both the Fusion and the i386 Linux that is the most common. With rEFIt you can also boot i386 directly with no Fusion or any other vm manager. You especially won't need Bootcamp, although it's there if you do need it. I have the G4 because it is one of my oldies I just couldn't toss out. I also have the fun involved in learning two booting systems: openFirmware (ppc) and EFI (iMac). My G4 now has four booting Linux distro's. What fun.:)

No, I didn't forget Windoz. I'm just trying to forget it. :-)
smyl
08-31-2008, 07:28 AM
I've had a G3 & G4 iBook, and a G4 PowerBook, and i really do like OS X as a desktop OS

I wont switch entirely to the mac though, a LOT of what i do is setup on linux already, and it's easier just to leave all of that stuff running on the machines in the other room...