Am 15.09.2015 um 17:12 schrieb Keith Keller kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us:
On 2015-09-15, wwp subscript@free.fr wrote:
Searching the web, I see very few possibilities to install a recent (I need gnome2) GNU/Linux distro on such hardware. I gave Linux MintPPC 11 (http://www.mintppc.org/content/list-macs) a try, but the netinstall iso simply fails in installing a boot loader that conserves the original OS/X partition even after many tries and workarounds.
You might try Ubuntu or Debian. Keep in mind that Macs present their own challenge beyond just a different architecture; they had a funky implementation of Open Firmware that was a major PITA to configure properly. The Mac OF bootloader, yaboot, is pretty much abandonware at this point as well.
this also helps to boot
http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
-- LF