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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-10-09 11:37 PM
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Can I boot Linux from a thumb drive? I'm willing to give it a try.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 05:55 PM
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1. There's a website dedicated to the subject:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

Various distros may have more convenient methods: for example, http://www.puppylinux.com/flash-puppy.htm

A general utility that will enable you to do this (using, say, an iso file) is UNetbootin: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 09:28 PM
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2. Thank you!
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 06:23 PM
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3. I bought Yellow Dog Linux
I don't know anything at all about this, but I wanted to try. I still haven't installed it. Do you think it's a good program, if you've used it? Thanks.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 10:39 PM
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4. I used YellowDog for years. I liked it. If you have a PS3, YellowDog will
run on it. I think the PS3 and the XboX are PPC processors.

YellowDog always seemed really polished.
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Adelante Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 06:58 AM
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5. Thanks, alfredo
I have an iMac G5 PPC to install it on. It's getting old, but it's still chugging. I'm going to figure out how to install Yellow Dog and give it a shot this weekend. Thanks again.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-16-09 08:03 AM
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6. It's not that hard to install. If you screw it up, start over. Using Linux will
teach you about the UNIX underpinnings of OSX.
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