Tag Archives: os x

What version of linux do u recommend for newbies?

I’m tired of OS X 10.4.10 which crash all the time ,slow and unstable – just like Windows PC. I wanted to port to Linux ,I tried Ubuntu but it failed to boot Live CD (EE: no screen blabla, something with the xorg.conf)
So where to start?

I used a linux live cd, how do i restore OS X onto my mac?

I shall explain.

Basically, I wanted to give a linux LiveCD a test (I picked Mandriva), and so did the usual thing of putting the ISO onto the cd, and then went into system preferences and told the Mac to boot up into the CD. I only thought it would last once, and when I took the cd out and booted up, it would boot up into OS X.

However, to my horror, it asked me to insert the boot disk for Mandriva, and as I am a newbie to Linux, I didn’t know how to change it back within the LiveCD.

I need some help; I don’t want to install the LiveCD onto my mac as I only have 1 partition, so how can I make everything lovely and normal again?

mac os on “live” cd??

i know it is out there, i have seen it but does anyone know how to get the mac os / mac os x on a “live” or livedistro cd.
this is just like the knoppix on linux
it is a cd that boots mac on a pc. how do i get it?
i want it so i can try the os and use the video editing

for those of you who dont know what i am talking about dont answer

recover gpt protective partition?

I added an ntfs partition to my external hard drive from a puplinux live cd, and then I added some files to the original partition (which i have been using for months) on my mac system, and now windows xp doesn’t display the drive in control panel, and in the drive management menu it identifies the drive as entirely a GPT protective partition. I can still use the drive normally in os x and linux. I tried deleting the new partition, which didn’t seem to help.

Is there anyway I can get my drive to work in xp again without data loss?

What linux distro for a G4 Mac? Live CD?

Want flash 10 but not OS X 10.4. I tried one of the Ubuntu but it didn’t work right, any suggestions? Here is the system:
1.25 GHz PowerPC G4
Mac OS X 10.3.9