Gentoo Offers PPC LiveCDs

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Ripped right off their homepage: In a recent Slashdot article, someone asked if it were possible to create a fully-featured bootable Linux LiveCD for the Macintosh. We thought this was a great idea. So today, we are releasing two full-featured LiveCDs for the PowerPC: one with KDE 3, and another with GNOME 2. Take a look at the KDE LiveCD running MacOS X in a window via Mac on Linux. LiveCDs can be downloaded or from several mirrors."

http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/releases/ppc/livecd/1.4_rc7/

http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml
 
i have been playing with this iso, it is really kewl, boot up, config x and startx.
works great, now to try the "mac on linux" that is included. it is actually very fast on my PB 500.
anyone else playing with this?
 
I tried burning it, and I can't boot off the cd I made (I made the disk image with Disk Copy, like I have before). Now I'm reburning with Toast. I hope it works.
 
i had to hold the c key on boot,. hope that helps,, and i burnt it with a nero on windoze sexPee, i dont have a cdrw in my pb500, i am looking to get one, either firewire or internal, any suggestions?
 
It's doing exactly what it did with my YDL cd's.

I hold c and it tries to boot from the disk. I get that gray screen for about five minutes before it just boots into OS X anyway.

I hold Option and it doesn't show a CD.

I put it in the External burner. I hold C and it does the same thing. I hold Option, and it shows the CD (with a nice little Linux icon too). I click that, click the arrow, and it gives me the same screen except with crappy, messed up colors.

I've reburned it 3 times. Twice with disk copy, and once with Toast Ti. When I burned with Toast Ti, I selected burn disk image.

Anyone can help me?
 
maybe try to re download the iso, ?
i think the iso is 517 megs,
if the iso is good i think you can mount it as a disk image and see inside it.
 
Originally posted by TRITON
i have been playing with this iso, it is really kewl, boot up, config x and startx.
works great, now to try the "mac on linux" that is included. it is actually very fast on my PB 500.
anyone else playing with this?
Click to expand...

Command? I checked for m<tab> M<tab> and got no results.
 
Originally posted by TRITON
maybe try to re download the iso, ?
i think the iso is 517 megs,
if the iso is good i think you can mount it as a disk image and see inside it.
Click to expand...
I can. It shows what it shows in the CD. 3 Folders; boot, docs, and ppc-stages. (I have the Gnome one btw) The CD and disk image both take up 510.2 Megs (because Gnome takes up less space)
 
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