[Tfug] iMac G3

[Jon]

$300 is too high for a 233Mhz model. It might be worth $150. If they
don't like your offer then let some other fool buy it. For ~$300 you could
buy a 333mhz model on ebay.

This person wants $174 on ebay for his iMac:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2031072033
which looks be a 233 model.


Jon


On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Nicolas Lopez wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:37:56PM -0700, Glenn Shannon wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have found a G3 iMac, and had a few questions for those of you who own
> > a mac.
> >
> > 1) Will the iMac run PPC/Linux (ala Debian, prefereably..)
>   Yup. iMacs are "NewWorld", so the firmware sucks less (which makes it MUCH
> easier to boot)
>
> > 2) How hard is it to get Linux on one of these bad boys?
>   I) download linux, yaboot, and yaboot.conf from the Debian mirrors into
> the root of your (assumed) existing MacOS partition)
>
>   II) boot into OF by holding down something-Option-O-F, where something is
> either Control or Command, I can never remember which.
>   III) boot hd:,yaboot
>   IV) Run through the installer.
>
>   That's pretty much it. penguinppc.org, or imaclinux.org should have links
> to a more detailed howto (like http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html)
>
> > 3) Whats a fair price (the offer is at 300 but negotiable..)?
>   For a first gen (233Mhz), 300 is probably fair.
>
>   Oh, and the HOWTO is correcting me allready. You need root.bin too, and it
> is Command-Option-O-F
>
>   - Nick Lopez
>     kimo_sabe@atdot.org
> --
> It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes.
> You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. -Rickover
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