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*Turn on your Apple, insert the Fedora install media and boot from the CD/DVD by holding down the 'c' key as soon as you hear the Apple chime.
*Turn on your Apple, insert the Fedora install media and boot from the CD/DVD by holding down the 'c' key as soon as you hear the Apple chime.


Note: There seems to ba a bug in Fedora 9 with caps lock being on when the light isn't. Check at the screen where you can enter your host name. If it is reversed it will play havoc with your passwords!.
Note: There seems to ba a bug in Fedora 9 with caps lock being on when the light isn't. Check at the screen where you can enter your host name. If it is reversed it will play havoc with your passwords!


:#When you get to the partitioning page, select the option which will set up the free space on your hard drive for Fedora, leaving your MAC partition alone.
:#When you get to the partitioning page, select the option which will set up the free space on your hard drive for Fedora, leaving your MAC partition alone.

Revision as of 13:01, 24 July 2008

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Fedora on Apple PPC hardware

iBook G4 Hardware info:

iBook G4/1.33GHz 12-Inch (Mid-2005)

  • 1.33 GHz PowerPC 7447a (G4) processor with 64k L1 cache
  • 512k "on chip" level 2 cache.
  • 512 MB of onboard RAM (PC2700 DDR SDRAM).
  • 40 GB (4200 RPM) Ultra ATA/100 hard drive.
  • Slot-loading DVD-ROM/CD-RW "Combo" drive.
  • 4X AGP ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 graphics with 32 MB of DDR SDRAM.
  • A standard AirPort Extreme (802.11g) - Broadcom BCM4318 chipset.
  • Bluetooth 2.0+EDR.
  • 56k v.92 standard modem
  • 50 W/Hr LiIon battery (Stated 6 hour lifetime)
  • 12.1" TFT XGA active matrix display (1024x768 native resolution).
  • "Sudden Motion Sensor" technology that stops the hard drive heads from moving if the notebook is dropped.
  • "Scrolling Trackpad" that allows one to scroll or pan by touching the trackpad with two fingers instead of one.

Dual booting with OS X

  • Install OS X first.
  1. Boot from your OS X install CD but before the installation starts, load the disk utility from the top menu.
  2. Here you can partion your drive. Partition the drive in two, one as MAC filesystem (for OS X) and one as free space, leave the MBR as the default MAC option.
  3. Once OS X is installed grab any updates and set the date/time.
  4. You are now ready to go ahead with installing Fedora

Installing Fedora

  • Turn on your Apple, insert the Fedora install media and boot from the CD/DVD by holding down the 'c' key as soon as you hear the Apple chime.

Note: There seems to ba a bug in Fedora 9 with caps lock being on when the light isn't. Check at the screen where you can enter your host name. If it is reversed it will play havoc with your passwords!

  1. When you get to the partitioning page, select the option which will set up the free space on your hard drive for Fedora, leaving your MAC partition alone.

Wireless networking

Broadcom BC43xx chipset

Useful links

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers

Work needed

Bugzilla

  • #219540 Game Glest not playable at PPC-arch
  • #239713 bootstrap ghc on ppc64
  • #453311 pulseaudio does not start

Someone who interested should also watch #179260

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