Re: Graphite Imac 500 MHz ?

From: Greg Madden <pabi@gci.net>
Date: Sat Sep 01 2007 - 20:57:57 AKDT

On Friday 31 August 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.

Update
Thanks for the replies,

It turns out the PAV board is bad. Too expensive to fix on such an old
Imac.

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Greg Madden
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