How to enable Bootcamp for PowerPC based Macs?

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How to enable Bootcamp for PowerPC based Macs?

Hi my friends.

Is it possible to enable Bootcamp on PowerPC based Macs. I want to run a PPC (PowerPC) version of Linux. And only Linux and Mac OS X Leopard, nothing else.

I understand Bootcamp allows x86 operating systems, which is great for the intel users. But I would like to only run a Linux PowerPC variant with my Mac OS X.

Any ideas?

Haresh.

Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Nov 8, 2007 1:13 AM

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Fortuny

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Nov 8, 2007 1:17 AM in response to Haresh Kainth

Hi Haresh,

sorry but it is not possible to enable BootCamp on PPC-Macs.

But for a PPC-Linux version BootCamp is not needed.
Have a look here for starters: http://lowendmac.com/linux/index.shtml

Good Luck

Stefan

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Answer 2

Nov 8, 2007 1:18 AM in response to Haresh Kainth

You may be able to set up a dual boot PPC with Mac OS X and Linux, but you have to use another way. Boot Camp won't work on PPC Macs and its purpose is something different. Maybe your PPC Linux comes with its own boot manager. I'd check the documentation and recommend having a recent backup before continuing...

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Answer 3

Nov 8, 2007 1:20 AM in response to Björn Herrmann

The "Hamburger" was 1 minute faster, but he's right... 🙂

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Fortuny

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Nov 8, 2007 1:27 AM in response to Björn Herrmann

Hi Björn,

I am curious: what region name suits your location ?

"It's neither here nor there" (North, South, East, West - The Church) 😉

Stefan

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Answer 5

Nov 8, 2007 1:31 AM in response to Fortuny

Maybe I should've added /Near Mannheim, but figured this wouldn't be of interest to anyone. 🙂

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Fortuny

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Nov 8, 2007 1:48 AM in response to Björn Herrmann

I admit I haven't been to Mannheim, but two things come in mind:

Schlappi
Street Names like 'M 5,7'

And I am notoriously curious, when seeing Mac User from Germany round here, hoping to catch some other 'Hamburger'.

Have a nice day

Stefan

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Answer 7

Nov 8, 2007 1:59 AM in response to Fortuny

We totally off-topiced this thread, sorry! But I guess the answer to the question is given.
I'm a Mac technician and have some customers in the "Quadratestadt" and I'm also always happy to see some german users around here.

Have a good time!
Björn

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Answer 8

Nov 8, 2007 4:38 AM in response to Haresh Kainth

First of all, thanks for the quick replies.

After taking your advice (much appreciated) i will have to look at an alternative method.

hope its safe for me to say this here, but i really want to "triple/dual" boot into mac os x leopard (which is brilliant), openSuse (personally, the best linux distro) and fedora 7 (for cell development).

If anyone has any more links, please, please post them, i need all the help i can get.

if i manage to do this (i will let you all know) and i would save a lot of money (bills), no need to run three box's ever again.

thanks again.

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Answer 9

Fortuny

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Nov 8, 2007 5:33 AM in response to Haresh Kainth

Hi,

maybe these can help you:

http://en.opensuse.org/Installation
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f7/en_US/

Good Luck and please report back how it works.

Stefan

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