I'm thinking about updating an old ibook (of the bright orange 300MHz variety) with linux as it's OS so I got hold of the latest (5.10) Ubuntu LiveCD to give it a test, see if it works okay before formatting etc...
The kernal loads, goes through all the options okay, shows an ubuntu splash screen with all the loading status going by at the bottom
...but...
Right at the end of bootup process I end up with a black screen. I can see the mouse pointer and I can move the mouse pointer around on the screen, and by clicking around and smacking the keyboard I can make the CD spin up, but I get nothing on screen apart from the mouse pointer (which does respond at least to the trackpad)
help is obviously neededany suggestions?


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). a 300MHz cpu and 96Mb of ram should happily run an OS by my thinking, even if it does run quite slowly. The Ubuntu liveCD sort of got stuck at the point where the desktop was loading up I think. I might have time to play with it and other options again next weekend, I'll take my camera to record the progress a little better...
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