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Kareshnaka

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Jul 14, 2010
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I found an emac on the street, I took it home and plugged it in. It worked for about a month. then, when I turned it on it does not boot mac os. it just shows the apple symbol and a progress indicator and does not go further than that. I think the hard drive crashed. I can't re-install os x because, well, i don't have the install disks. I don't want to pay for tham either. I know there are linux OSes that can boot on an emac. any suggestions on whitch one to use?
 

Hrududu

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Jul 25, 2008
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Central US
That progress bar typically means it booting into safe mode. Most likely because there is something wrong with the hard drive.
 

Kaji79

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Jul 12, 2010
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I run 9.04 ubu on my 1.25, and it runs swell. Just a heads up though when that happened to me I ended up with a crashed hdd.
 

zmttoxics

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May 20, 2008
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If the harddrive took a dump, I would worry about replacing it more then which linux to install. Linux is free, so try them all I say! :p

Yellowdog has been doing it for a very very long time so I would think their PPC support is better then some of the other ones, but who knows.
 
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