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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…

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,…

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…

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, s…

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…

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…

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 d…

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, b…