[Noisebridge-discuss] MacBook + Powerbooks in Turing Classroom

[Brian Morris]

Don't know if these are donated or up for grabs. MacBook air has been
sitting there for 3 weeks, iBook maybe 4 or 5 weeks.

The Macbook air had a copy of an installer DVD cloned to the hard drive
(like the hd was the dvd), wanted to install over itself on boot up and then
complained that it couldn't do that (I wonder why). I booted it off a backup
of my MacBook and it ran ok. I copied an image of the installer dvd clone
but I need a dual layer dvd to burn it (not sure it will boot even so) --
which would then have to be mounted on another mac sharing the dvd to it to
install it I think. My backup drive is 10.5 the installer is 10. 6; IMHO
this original MB air may not work all that well but maybe someone wants it
or actually owns it and wants help ?

Please let me know a) if you are owner of MB Air and want help to fix it or
b) you claim it as abandoned and want help or want me to leave it alone...


Then that older iBookG3 has mac 10.3 panther (2003) on it, it is the more
modern white one (there is also a really badly beatup clamshell with 0S9),
could run Debian I could put it on or someone could claim it and put it on,
Debian on this machine actually will run pretty well. There are some tricks
to getting powerpc install but I use the netbook desktop and it is good,
Gnome is not so good probably. Maybe a good durable machine to start with
Linux for somebody.

Then there is that ancient iMac there in the corner, that was me. Proof that
new Linux can run even on a 12 year old machine and you can do some basic
work even.

Actually the MB Air can try Linux too, either natively or by virtual box.
Powermac can't run VBox but they can run MacOS inside Linux natively with
MacOnLinux...

Anybody wants to get together on hacking OS on Macs any age (well lets say
3years or older, that is no OpenCL  support or 64bit boot) and aspect I am
open.

I have first and last g4 powerbooks running Debian Squeeze, a g3 with
Ubuntu10 and a Macbook with DebianAMD-64 in Virtual Box - too many...


Brian
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