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Commodore kid
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Location: Staffordshire, England
Posted: 3rd Jul 2007 18:26
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hey im having problems with my imac g3. i got it off a mate so it dusnt have its original disks and the data and os on the hard drive is corrupt. i dont want to fork out for the original disks so i was wondering if there was a linux for this machene that would allow me to format the hard disk and install the linux. other ones i have tried dont install without the original mac os installed and dont allow me to sort out the harddisk.

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H4ck1d
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2007 18:39
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I definitely recommend ubuntu. It's the easiest linux installation I've ever been through. Just make sure you download the correct distribution for your machine.

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Location: Winnipeg,Canada
Posted: 3rd Jul 2007 19:30
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I have a iMac so I know what your talking about especially since I went throught a similar thing although, I would seriously recommend getting the original disks evn if you want to have linux because once you get the Mac OS to work its very easy to duel boot.
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Commodore kid
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2007 23:44 Edited at: 5th Jul 2007 15:22
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its hard cus i cant put osx on mine until i upgrade the firmware and the os9 discs seem hard to find so i wud like to find a linux that wud allow me to format and prepare the hard disk.

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indi
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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 01:44
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your in luck mate, its called MKLINUX http://www.mklinux.org/
now I must get back to organizing my toe nail collection

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