“…I’ve noticed that a noteworthy segment of users are
attempting to install LinuxPPC 2000 on their PowerPC G4s. Because I
happen to share the opinion that the G4 hardware is very appealing,
I’m going to describe in laymen’s terms how to perform a LinuxPPC
installation on a Macintosh PowerPC G4.”
“Sure, documentation currently exists for this type of
installation, with one caveat: You must wipe your curent hard
drive. This wasn’t too appealing to me since I need my Mac OS to
play Quake Arena and Unreal. I preferred a more stable approach,
and that was to set up LinuxPPC on a secondary ATA drive. This
would leave my primary drive free, and I could still use Mac OS 9
to get out on the Internet and retrieve information as I ran into
installation problems.”
“The approach of this article is that you can sit down and
perform the entire install on one Saturday afternoon, or you can
break up the install into incremental steps. I recommend taking
incremental steps if you have never set up a LinuxPPC workstation
before. This article breaks up the installation of a second ATA
hard drive, partitioning the drive, and then installing the
LinuxPPC 2000 software. Breaking the tasks up into these three
steps helps relieve any frustrations you may encounter along the
way. Take one evening to install a second ATA drive and get your
system to boot properly. The next evening, partition and format the
drive. And finally, install the LinuxPPC 2000 software. I gathered
as much information as possible to minimize the onset of any
unnecessary grief.”