apple iBook Aftermath After deciding that this project was at an end, I was with an iBook that that didn’t do anything. I decided the only right thing to do is reverse my work and install OS X back on there. I had to create an image of the DVD of course,
apple Graphic Grief The iBook did begin to load Lubuntu and actually got reasonably far. The splash page came up, the screen went blank and loaded a load of drivers, all seemed correct. Screen flashed back and then…. Nothing. I looked into it and it seems there is a page for addressing PPC
apple Getting There - The Summary Ok, it seemed like at last I was getting somewhere and had successfully managed to image the iBook. I meant to add another bookmark, that I found useful from the Ubuntu website directly. Here’s the actual list of commands I ran after ensuring the target disk (the iBook) was
apple A New Day, A New Drive The USB flash drive was a bit of a non-starter so, I decided to use a USB drive I had. As an aside, G-Technology make some good external drives, so if you’re ever in the market, they’re well worth a look. They cost a little more, but they
apple Time To Target Disk Until now, the original Mac OS X system was still on the iBook’s internal drive and I had been using external drives to image and then use to boot and install on to the iBook. Unfortunately, for ever reason, it wouldn’t work. Sometimes, the external drive would power
apple Breaking The Rules With Booting With my new find about booting from USB, I imaged my titanium USB stick with Lubuntu and hoped for the best. You have to be a little careful with USB sticks and their drawing power. Some work on any USB port and some need slightly higher powered ones. So, the
apple Here’s A Question How do you get a 14 year old computer to boot into an operating system installer when it’ll only boot from Firewire or CD and your optical drive doesn’t work and the only firewire you have has just failed? You have to change the rules! Ok, there is
apple Booting From External Drives So why didn’t the external drive boot up? It was a Firewire interface, it was partitioned with APM and the software on there should have booted, but when turning on the computer and holding the ‘ALT’ or ‘option’ key, the drive didn’t show. I concluded that perhaps the
apple Discs, Disks and Imaging With the Linux version decided upon, it would now need to be installed on the iBook. These Ubuntu based distros are designed to be burned to a CD or DVD as a ‘Live’ disc. This means the host computer boots from optical drive straight into the OS and can be
apple Decisions, Decisions! With the distros installed as virtual machines on my Mac mini, it was easy to test them and get a feel for them. Certainly, Mint felt the most polished and complete installation, but then I wonder if that’s just down to aesthetics rather than anything else. Mint did suffer
apple Lubuntu Lubuntu is the third distro I tried. Lubuntu (/lʊˈbʊntuː/ loo-buun-too) is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu but using the LXDE desktop environment in place of Ubuntu’s Unity shell and GNOME desktop. LXDE is touted as being “lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient” I like Lubuntu and
apple Ubuntu MATE Following up from Mint was MATE. Ubuntu MATE is essentially Ubuntu but replacing the Unity graphical interface with an environment called MATE (pronounced Mar-Tey apparently). Ubuntu MATE is a free and open-source Linux distribution and an official derivative of Ubuntu. Its main differentiation from Ubuntu is that it uses the
apple Mint Linux The first distro of Linux I tried out was Mint Linux Linux Mint is a community-driven Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu that strives to be a “modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.” Linux Mint provides full out-of-the-box multimedia support by
apple Testing (Virtual) Machines After feeling happy that the iBook was back in working order, the next step was to install Linux, but which one? I was quite sure that whatever did get installed on the iBook, it had to be fairly user friendly and somehow familiar. My brother has used PCs and Macs,
apple iBook Hardware Status With the iBook now powering up successfully, it seemed like a good time to check the hardware out before embarking on going Linux. The machine powered up with a chime, which means that the processor and RAM are working. The iBook had a standard 128Mb which is soldered on the
apple Resurrecting An iBook - the prequel Way back in 2002, I had already become smitten with the world of Apple. Prior to this, my introduction to the ecosphere, was a second hand iMac G3 Graphite SE. I remember it well, I had been editing a lot of video on a homemade PC with Adobe Premiere and
apple iPad Controller for Final Cut X Many people, including myself, use Final Cut X to edit their films and many of those people also own an iPad. Pixel Film Studios has developed an app for the iPad that acts as a controller board for Final Cut X. It gives you a large jog wheel and host
