I have a PowerBook G4 12 1,5 Ghz (http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/stats/powerbook_g4_1.5_12.html) in witch I wish to install MintPPC 9.3 in dual-boot with Mac OS X. After disabling the journalization of the mac partition, I'm planing to resize it with parted and then creating the Linux partitions with the mintppc installer in the free space created. However, I'm looking for a "live" CD witch contains GNU parted...
So, is it possible to use the Debian/mintppc installer for parted and then the installer partitions tools, or should I use a live CD like Ubuntu's for parted?

When resizing the Mac partition, the space for the Linux partitions must be after the Mac OS X partitions or before (after bootstrap partition of course)? How much the space for the Linux partitions should be?

Also, my PowerBook's CD-Room drive has passed away and I am not sure if booting with the "C" key from an external CD drive USB still works. I found here:http://www.jacsoft.co.nz/Tech_Notes/Mac_Keys.shtml#Command-Shift-Option-Deletethat in this case, Command-Shift-Option-Delete works but I am not sure...

Thanks for your replies

Hi Fowl, welcome to our forum. MintPPC has no liveCD available, You'd have to do that with some sort of liveCD, Ubuntu will do the job, if you know how to enable graphics. I would make the empty space at least 5 Gb for Linux. Just crate one big enough empty space and let the installer use the largest continuous empty space.

I would boot from a USB stick, see installation instructions. Go for the mini.iso, that's the easiest. You need a working ethernet connection.

I see, My PowerBook RAM is only 512 MB, so about half will be enough for Linux? According to the Gentoo manual ppc, the Linux swap partition should be about 512MB.

I don't know how much the swap partition must be. And the Apple bootstrap partition is automaticaly created or manually by the partitionment tool of the mintppc CD?

If you want everything is done automatically by the installer. Swap you can take same as you amount of RAM. Beware that you take the right iso, apparently the latest don't work. I updated the instructions, so read carefully.

Btw, linuxopjemac, I saw this on the release notes for 9.2. Is this still applicable for 9.3?

That is also applicable. You can try it out if you like.

Is there an over heating issue with the Mac PowerBook G4 aluminum model? If so, how do I do what you suggest here......

Quote: If you are installing MintPPC on a PowerBook G4 Aluminium then I would go for an extra kernel module to prevent overheating. Add therm_adt746x to /etc/modules. Make sure to also install cpudyn:

sudo apt install cpudyn

I believe I can do the 2nd part of the suggestion (sudo apt install cpudyn), but I don't know how to add a module as you suggest above. Could you elaborate a bit? Is this done after MPPC9 is installed and running? Thanks in advance.

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