Comments on: Ubuntu on the iBook G3 – getting it all to work

By: Tony Cygne

Tony Cygne — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:31:18 +0000

Sorry, newb. Much of my work here was copy and pasted from my other iBook linux posts, those distributions don’t use sudo. I’m certain many of them will bark at you about permissions. And I apologise for that temporary confusions. Perhaps when I find time, I will edit this post. When ever your system barks about permission, just add sudo to the line. But as a newb, you should still research each command and figure out what the command does and why it needs to be run as sudo. You will improve your linux knowledge and have more control over your system.

ALSO

There is no line in the blogs which says “tar -xjvf inux-2.6.33.2.tar.bz2 // _INUX //”. There is a line which says “tar -xjvf linux-2.6.33.2.tar.bz2″, but that is what you are trying to correct. So I’m kind of confused here.

By: erik

erik — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:43:24 +0000

Hi and thanks for your efforts.
Complete linux newby here trying to revive an old dual usb ibook (“Diesel”).
For guys like me just copy-pasting your advices to terminal maybe you want to advice to prepend each line with sudo.
One little typo found: tar -xjvf inux-2.6.33.2.tar.bz2 // _INUX //
Should read “tar -xjvf linux-2.6.33.2.tar.bz2″

By: Jeroen Diederen

Jeroen Diederen — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:03:36 +0000

Good work. I am very surprised that you see such different behaviour on the same kind of iBook. I think the CD-readers on these old machines are a little buggy.

I will be using your information for my own project. Very soon I will get a second PowerBook Pismo to play with. My idea is to port Linux Mint LXDE to the powerpc architecture. You can follow the project on the Linux Mint LXDE forum and on my own website’s forum (Powerpc -> General).

I wish you good luck with your own special Karmic Koala….