Live-CD to run Linux on iMac

[forhire]

Last week I had a problem. A customer had an iMac G4 that wouldn't boot. He was told it was a hardware problem by another shop. It looked like a software issue to me. Without reloading how do you tell?

I thought... I wish Knoppix supported PowerPC. So I started searching and came across Unbuntu Linux http://www.ubuntulinux.org/

Live CD worked perfect. I was able to boot the machine and verify that everything worked. Now to reload OSX... but that's another story.

[drake]

how did you make the live bootable cd? Did you download and burn the CD with a MAC? I tried with a windows machine and the CD would not boot.

[forhire]

Not sure why the iso failed to burned from windows. I burned mine from another Linux machine running webCDwriter. I use it to burn files from any machine on my network. It's easier than maintaining burning software in several machines. The software is open source and available here: http://joerghaeger.de/webCDwriter/