Old G3 worth my time?

[powermac]

Originally Posted by Qion

Don't ever throw a Mac away, no matter how old.

http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=273635

Yeah. You could find several uses for that computer. I set my old G3 Powermac up as a music server hosting several Grateful Dead shows. So, yeah, take it and use it.

[Rhisiart]

Originally Posted by industripop

it's in my trunk as we speak. i swear though, if i bring it in the house and leave pieces laying around my wife is gonna kill me. need my own room for this kind of stuff.

Oh, I can relate to this!

[DarkAngel_x]

Is there anyway that you can install Ubuntu Linux and keeping Mac OS X, like a dual-boot thing? Jw, someone reminded me of this.

[Qion]

Originally Posted by DarkAngel_x

Is there anyway that you can install Ubuntu Linux and keeping Mac OS X, like a dual-boot thing? Jw, someone reminded me of this.

Sí.

(A simple yes... before you get told.)

[nixgeek]

Originally Posted by industripop

it's in my trunk as we speak. i swear though, if i bring it in the house and leave pieces laying around my wife is gonna kill me. need my own room for this kind of stuff.

LOL! I know EXACTLY where you're coming from.

And DarkAngel_x, yes you can dual boot. I recommend installing OS X first and repartitioning your drive during the OS X installation so that you have enough space for the installation of Linux on it. I usually split the drive in half, but that's up to you. Consider that when you partition, just create a Mac OS X partition and then leave the rest unallocated so that can be partitioned during the Linux installation. Remember also that for the Linux installation you're going to need at least three partitions: one for the bootstrap (which will be formatted HFS to hold yaboot and other kernel info), one for the swap (I usually make this twice the amount of the memory in the machine...in other words, 512 MB if you have 256 MB RAM installed), and the rest of the space for everything else (you can use one partition for "/" or you can make smaller partitions to your liking). For the Linux filesystem, I recommend using reiserfs since I haven't been successful with XFS. I don't recommend ext3 since it's really slow compared to reiserfs.

As for Ubuntu, I recommend downloading the Alternate CD installation since I've had problems installing with the Live CD they now use as default. The Alternate CD install is the same as the installation in Breezy, so it shouldn't be all too different.