The Nancengka Social Place

Sunday activity: trying to install Linux on an ancient iBook G4.

@gombang how's it going? And which flavor of Linux?

@rabia_elizabeth it hasn't really started. Just burned the DVD and charging the laptop. I plan to install Debian.

anticipated difficulties: installing drivers and configuring wireless connection, because I don't have any cables.

hmmm apparently newest debian already has non-free firmware included.

@gombang seru tauk. Ubek2 di installation drivenya buat ambil driver, install manual, abis itu configurasi sendiri. Paling yang pertama diinstall itu wireless, ethernet, baru nmtui/nmcli

not broadcom firmware though huh.

@prabasuyasa wireless masalah karena drivernya gak boleh didistribusikan bebas hahahah. harus disalin manual.

@gombang nah itu. Nyalin manualnya yang pr banget. Rhel kah?

@prabasuyasa Debian, karena masih support powerpc.

this will need some command-line wizardry, lol.

@gombang i would have given up before I started

@afif yeah this is hard. failed to install grub.

@gombang chatgpt to the rescue :)

@sapiderman masalah hardware lol. dvd drivenya tantrum sama dvd rw gw (tapi bisa baca dvd installer macos)

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the dvd drive was finicky and failed to read the installer cd (but could read OS X installer). Will try again later.

@gombang dvd in 2024! Amazballs! Hahah good luck!

@sapiderman booting from USB on this old mac is even harder.