Re: Graphite Imac 500 MHz ?

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Greg Madden wrote:

> I was given the subject box, no keyboard or mouse. Without keyboard &
> mouse it boots (OS X) then goes into a reboot cycle. I know absolutely
> nothing about Apple, intend to boot a live Ubuntu PPC disk to check it
> out. I need a keyboard and mouse to do this checkout though.
>
> It is a Imac M5521, Graphite, 500MHz, ppc 750, memory capacity is 1gb of
> pc133 memory, won't know until I boot it.
>
> Any comments or links welcome on running Linux on this.

Any USB keyboard/mouse should work with it. As I recall, holding the "C"
key down while powering it on causes it to boot off of CD rather than the
drive.

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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Received on Fri Aug 31 16:53:29 2007