Are you sure you burned the CD correctly - as an image and not just adding
the ISO to the disk (you can see by viewing it in another computer - there
should be lots of files - not just one)?
You could try booting the Mac into target disk mode and mounting it to
another computer over FireWire and installing it that way?
You might be able to install it under Mac directly, after partitioning, by
using a suitably advanced VM. I'm not sure what the old Macs support but
Parallels let's me run my Boot camp partition under OSX without having to
reboot (rebooting works too - very useful!)
On 18 Sep 2012 21:12, "Sean Gibbins" <sean@???> wrote:
> On 18/09/12 20:46, Jan Henkins wrote:
>
>> As far as I can tell, there is a G4 PowerPC version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
>> available. Otherwise you could look at Debian.
>>
>
> There's a 12.04 LTS PowerPC version available too Jan.
>
> I have both that and the Debian port, but as I say lack the ability to
> boot off of the CD/DVD drive, which fails to respond when I press c at the
> boot noise (as most guides seems state it should), and simply boots into
> the installed OS instead. The boot media is readable once I am up and
> running in OS X, so it seems the drive is at least partially functional.
>
> Thanks for the links and advice from all who responded thus far - I can
> see I have a lot more reading to do and the desired quick fix (Ellen
> returns to uni in a couple of days) is not likely to be forthcoming!
>
> Sean
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