SoulSe Posted February 2, 2003 Report Share Posted February 2, 2003 A friend of mine just bought a brand new, shiny Mac. Powerbook. He currently dual boots with Mac. OS 9 (I think) and Mac. OS X. I convinced him to try out Mandrake on the machine (I want to see those resources pumped!). Thing is, I know sweet **** all about Macs. What should I look out for? Can I pop in a CD and install like I would normally? Will the dual booting rock sweetly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted February 2, 2003 Report Share Posted February 2, 2003 I don' t think there is a Mac version of Mandrake 9.0. While scounging around the open areas of the Mandrake Club, IIRC that there is a version for 8.2. Maybe you could start on the docs page and see if there are any manuals for 8.2 and then some more scrounging for a site with ISO's. Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted February 2, 2003 Report Share Posted February 2, 2003 counterspy is right, the only PPC (powerpc, aka mac) version of Mandrake is 8.2. You can find it on the downloads page. although I heard somewhere that they are working on a new PPC version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted February 2, 2003 Report Share Posted February 2, 2003 9.1 will have a PPC version, as I remembered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slagathor Posted February 2, 2003 Report Share Posted February 2, 2003 Yellow dog linux is for Mac's..... I checked into it for an old Power book, but mine is too old.... :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c_m_f Posted February 2, 2003 Report Share Posted February 2, 2003 mandrake release ppc versions every other time so its 8.0, 8.2 and 9.1 if that helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manly Posted February 3, 2003 Report Share Posted February 3, 2003 Perhaps an easier way to bring more *nix to the mac would be to install Apple's X11 + fink. You can even install KDE! At least he wouldn't be having to screw around with partitioning... wouldn't he have to reinstall OSX and OS9? Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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