{"id":86,"date":"2006-06-10T01:47:36","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T09:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bornia.com\/log\/2006\/06\/10\/ubuntu-ibook\/"},"modified":"2006-06-10T01:47:36","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T09:47:36","slug":"ubuntu-ibook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bornia.com\/log\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"ubuntu iBook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing this post running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a> 6.06 (Dapper) on my iBook G4 (1.2Ghz, 768mb, 30GB), with dual-boot to Tiger. Yay for me. Here&#8217;s what I did, and how:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Partitioning the drive:<\/strong> I wanted to repartition my wee 30GB drive without forcing a complete reinstall of OSX (Tiger) and all my apps\/etc. Using <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=89960\">this guide<\/a> I was able to accomplish this, and keep everything unscathed. Impressive. Just follow directions (see clarification note sent in, further down page&#8230; Partition sizes are listed in simple MB and GB). Back up anything important first, of course.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Installing:<\/strong> Dead simple, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/download\">download<\/a> the latest disk .iso  for PPC, burn with Toast or Disk Utility. Reboot while holding &#8220;c&#8221; and follow directions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Airport Extreme:<\/strong> First, beware <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=142727\">this guide<\/a>! Following these steps (admittedly for an older release, but still) sent my healthy install into an endless boot loop. Success came when I used <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?p=1071920&#038;mode=linear\">this guide<\/a>, simply followed every step to the letter, and voila, there it was. Warning: at the &#8220;Bookmark this page and reboot&#8221; instruction, please know that what may happen is you lose your ethernet connection (I assume this happened to me because my Airport is assigned &#8220;eth0&#8221; and superceded my Ethernet (eth1). When I restarted, no internet! DOH, until I realized Airport was up and running. Nice.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keyboard\/Trackpad:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celsius1414.com\/ubuntu_linux_on_ibook\">This guy<\/a> has a simple explanation for how to tweak the &#8220;Right Mouse Click&#8221; default (F12??) to a more intuitive key\/combo&#8230; (Hint: Typing &#8220;xev&#8221; in the terminal will launch a handy utility for determining what key codes are). Successfully remapped right-click to occur when I press &#8220;Fn-Ctrl,&#8221; much better. <strong>Also:<\/strong> Made my &#8220;Command&#8221; (Apple) keys equivalent to &#8220;Control&#8221; with <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=13640\">tips in this thread<\/a>. Makes it more familiar to my Mac sense-memories (always hated the pinky stretch Ctrl-Anything requires).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All else (close lid=sleep, battery usage, etc.) seems fine &#8220;out of the box.&#8221; Trackpad tweaks remain on the to do list, something to get it to &#8220;behave&#8221; more like it does in OSX, but I&#8217;m happy.<\/p>\n<p><img align=\"right\" title=\"ubuntu nude\" alt=\"ubuntu nude\" src=\"https:\/\/bornia.com\/log\/img\/ubuntu.jpg\" \/><strong>This just in:<\/strong> So yeah. Kickin&#8217; it in Ubuntu. Had a moment of doubt, a piece of writing that made me wanna reboot into OSX to finish. So I did. Now I&#8217;m back, fiddlin&#8217;&#8230; See, I&#8217;m pretty addicted to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragingmenace.com\/index.html\">awesome little utility<\/a> that enables scrolling and right-clicking via taps on the trackpad (on <em>&#8220;older&#8221;<\/em> iBooks, like mine). When\/if someone writes a similar hack that works in Ubuntu, that will seal the deal. For now, it&#8217;s pretty damn smooth sailing&#8230; Less and less reason to use OSX (on the laptop, at least; I have a desktop for work stuff, along with a few Win2K workstations).<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so that was overstating things a bit&#8230; I mean, I use a network printer. And need clear, crisp fonts. And apps that aren&#8217;t (yet) ported to Linux. But besides all that, it&#8217;s a hell of a tinker&#8230; And a very cool way to make older hardward relevant. Mine isn&#8217;t that old yet, tho (running latest Tiger smoothly). A friend is sending a (currently) useless old powerbook, and I&#8217;m looking forward to setting that thing  straight with some Ubuntu lovin&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing this post running Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) on my iBook G4 (1.2Ghz, 768mb, 30GB), with dual-boot to Tiger. Yay for me. Here&#8217;s what I did, and how: Partitioning the drive: I wanted to repartition my wee 30GB drive without forcing a complete reinstall of OSX (Tiger) and all my apps\/etc. Using this guide I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornia.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornia.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornia.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornia.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornia.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bornia.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornia.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornia.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornia.com\/log\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}