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    "oh My God! You've De-maced A Mac!!!"

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by TwilightVampire, Dec 9, 2006.

  1. TwilightVampire

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    That was the collective response of my friends in the cafe at college today as I managed to successfully dual boot OSX and Ubuntu on a G4 PowerBook! It wasnt the easiest thing in the world, but I did it.

    The first steps were to disable disk journaling within OSX. To do that I had to use the apple command line. I'm very happy thats linux based :) After that it was Ubuntu time. I threw the disk in the drive and restarted the computer and went to the boot menu. Booted to the Ubuntu disk and everything goes OK till disk partitioning. Ubuntu and Gparted lack the mac HDD format, HFS+. So I had to start a command line from the Ubuntu CD and go into Gparted myself and manually tell it which sectors of the disk needed to be shrunk and what to do with them. After I shrunk it I formatted it for Ubuntu and a swap space and the install went perfectly! Theres still a few kinks to work out I think, but thats a story for another time. (since I havent gotten a chance to really look at it much beyond giving my friend a quick tutorial on Ubuntu)
     
    TwilightVampire, Dec 9, 2006
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    Angelic Kickin' back :3

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    What vigilance! What determination!
     
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  3. Lysander

    Lysander AFK, raid time.

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    Yeah, I'd love to own a G4 iBook to do that to.
     
    Lysander, Dec 9, 2006
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    T'was my friends powerbook.
     
    TwilightVampire, Dec 9, 2006
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  5. Lysander

    Lysander AFK, raid time.

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    I know, I just meant I'd love to pick up an iBook (better battery life) to do that to.
     
    Lysander, Dec 9, 2006
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    That thing actually had pretty bad battery life. It only lasts a little longer than 2 hours.
     
    TwilightVampire, Dec 9, 2006
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  7. Lysander

    Lysander AFK, raid time.

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    Hmmm... I used one for an entire 3 hour lecture with WiFi on, and it was still going strong. Only laptop I've used that beats my current 6400 in battery life.
     
    Lysander, Dec 9, 2006
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    Wow, I kinda expected more from your 6400. My Sager gets about 3-3:20 in battery life after undervolting. Before I get about 2:45.

    Anywho: Linux macs rock!!
     
    TwilightVampire, Dec 9, 2006
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  9. Lysander

    Lysander AFK, raid time.

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    My 6400 can get around 5.5 hours if I work hard enough at it. Underclocking/volting GPU and CPU, running screen low. It really is amazing how you can almost double the stock battery life with only the slightest decrease in performance.
     
    Lysander, Dec 9, 2006
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    BigV, Dec 9, 2006
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