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Originally posted by NiteMare
OS X won't even run properly on a mac....let alone linux
Whatever. Idiot. Take your bullshit lies/rubbish elsewhere.
If you don't have anything worthy to say DON'T SAY IT AT ALL.
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Originally posted by Woraug
I've never used a Mac, or Linux, but I want to learn. I'm buying a Mac laptop from the high school here for $100 (A bit much, but it goes to helping pay for new computers for the tech class). All I really know about it (since I've never used a Mac) is that it's currently running OS 9.1
I want to know if I can put Linux Ubuntu on it, and dual boot it and OS X.
Okay, because it is running OS 9.1 then it'll be a PowerPC based processor.
First of all, because it is running an older version of Mac OS (before Mac OS X was introduced - v10) you'll want to check if it is actually capable (specifications) of running OS X. You'll need a G3 processor
at least.
Full requirements can be found at:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/requirements.html
Now - in regards to Linux you can't use standard x86 builds because they're for Intel processors. You need the ppc builds which are for PowerPC processors.
Luckily Ubuntu Linux has these:
http://ubuntu-releases.cs.umn.edu//6.06/
What you're looking for is "Mac (PowerPC) desktop CD" and once again it requires a G3 or greater processor.
Hope this helps.
