- #Running linux on a mac g3 how to#
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For those of you who don’t want to go to the bother of downloading and burning a CD just to get a copy of BootX, you can also get it online (as of this writing) at.
#Running linux on a mac g3 full#
One of them is the above mentioned MintPPC CD, which includes a full copy of BootX, greatly simplifying things for folks taking that route. Despite its unsupported status these days, you can still get BootX from a variety of sources.
#Running linux on a mac g3 mac os#
BootX has a system extension that will intercept the boot process as Mac OS comes up and redirect it to a Linux boot, but for this post, we will stick to the simplest approach: boot Mac OS and then run BootX to boot Linux.įirst things first. BootX is a Mac OS application, so you have to boot Mac OS first, and then boot Linux next. Kudos to “lubod” for a job well done.Īs I alluded to in my last post, the answer to booting an Old World PPC Mac from a Linux CD lies in a venerable and wholly unsupported piece of Mac OS software called BootX. Now as we have seen in an earlier post, the installer died later on, but at least the CD booted! MintPPC was the only Linux distro I found (and I tried a lot!) that provided a truly bootable Linux CD (at least for my Power Macintosh 7300). No muss, no fuss – the Linux installer booted up and started to run. Referring specifically to the following post in their forums ( ), I downloaded the MintPPC_9_Nano ISO mentioned, burned it to CD, and tried the “c” approach to boot my Power Macintosh 7300. Honorable mention must be given to the good folks over at Linux MintPPC, who have actually delivered a truly bootable Linux CD. I have also been running Mac OS 9.x on the Macs I have been trying this with, and so cannot comment on whether the below works for earlier releases of Mac OS. Although there are Linux installs available for 68K Macs, I tend to think that performance would be an issue on such lower power machines, and have not investigated this particular avenue.
#Running linux on a mac g3 how to#
This blog post is about how to overcome this annoying behavior and get a Linux CD up and running on your Old World Mac.īTW, my efforts in this area have been focused on PowerPC based Macs. With some frustration, you will watch Mac OS start to boot up, completely ignoring the CD that you wanted the Mac to actually boot from. Hence, following the above prescription with a Linux CD won’t normally get you anywhere. Old World Macs seem to lack the flexibility to boot non Apple media, for reasons I have not fully investigated. In theory, booting a Linux CD shouldn’t be that much different, but in practice it is. To do this you simply insert the CD and then restart your Mac while holding down the “c” key on the keyboard. OK, now that we know what an Old World Mac is, let’s return to the topic of booting that Old World Mac from its CD drive. Macs with Open Firmware are considered New World Macs. Starting with the beige G3s, Apple changed the onboard firmware to Open Firmware. If your PowerPC Mac has a numeric model number it is an Old World Mac. If your Mac is 68K based, it is an Old World Mac. What is an “Old World Mac” you ask? Old World Macs are typically all Macs that preceded the beige G3 line. As a general rule, booting your Old World Mac from a CD is a simple matter.
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