So, I went a-searching on the internets, and came across this post from 2010 on Ben Collins’ blog describing exactly what I wanted to accomplish – booting an iBook G4 from USB.
I knew that the iBook G4 that I had didn’t support USB booting by default – but I had read a while back that you could work your way through OpenFirmware and “hack” a USB boot. Now, this is where the fun stuff starts happening. I then downloaded the ISO from the G+ post linked on the OMG! Ubuntu! post. To start this whole project off I, obviously, read that post on OMG! Ubuntu! that I linked to above. That is, until I read this post on OMG! Ubuntu! about someone porting the Ubuntu 14.04 MATE Remix to PowerPC. I then built my desktop, and had no need for the iBook any more – so away into storage it went. It still booted and everything, and I could log in and use it, but the GUI, icons, and background were all messed up. So, to cut a long story short, I used Lubuntu 12.04 LTS for a long time, then tried upgrading to Lubuntu 14.04 LTS – and managed to break the system.
Hooray me.It really wasn’t that big of a deal, because I, like I said, prefer Linux/Ubuntu over any other OS out there. I managed to accidentally erase the OS X partition, and then without realizing I had done so, completely overwrote it with Lubuntu. So I tried to dual-boot Lubuntu and OS X Tiger (what was on it when I got it.) As such, I wanted to install Lubuntu on the iBook – both because I prefer Linux, and because I wanted better performance. Now, as you can probably tell from many of the posts on here, I’m a huge Linux/Ubuntu fan. So, I was able to get in, add a new user (my own) and continue using the iBook. Please note, this is not something I condone, unless you are breaking into your own Mac. Luckily, I had read a post by Lifehacker from their “Evil Week” regarding breaking into Macs. The person who sent it actually hadn’t used it in a long time and had forgotten their password – so I was left with a bootable – but unusable iBook. I originally recieved the mid-2005 iBook G4 from a relative as a Christmas present, Christmas 2013. I could go into more detail about the whole history of PowerPC CPUs and their uses, but that’s not what this post is about. Originally created in 1991 by Apple, IBM, and Motorola, the PowerPC architecture was originally created for personal computers and was/is best known for powering Apple computers from 1994 to 2006, before Apple transitioned entirely to using Intel processors. PowerPC (actually an acronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing) is an old CPU architecture that isn’t really used much any more.
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