Fu Manchu
04-20-2006, 05:38 PM
Greetings!
I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but I see no threads at all in this branch of the Forum. If I'm right, and I'm the first, I apologise for asking an off-base question that might not be of much interest to others.
Background: I was reading a detective novel, and in it the main character is faced with a situation where he needs to get into his associate's computer. The associate has disappeared, and perhaps a recent file on her HD will tell him what he needs to know to proceed in finding her.
Uh-oh! The boot-up, login PASSWORD!!! problem. Try her dog's name, her boyfriends name, her SS#, etc. No good.
Meanwhile **I** am thinking, "WTF? pop in SimplyMepis Live, or Knoppix. . . Read all the text files you want!"
BUT, the plot thickens as it is revealed that the computer in question is a Mac G4.
My humble question to you is:
Can a Linux Live CD boot a Mac G4?
I realize it is a different architecture/processor from the machines I normally associate with the Unix/Linux OS's. On the other hand, I've heard OS X is somewhat based on BSD.
Whatever. I have NO experience with Macs. And the question doesn't affect me personally --it's just curiosity.
Anybody have any experience that could clue me in? I'd be grateful.
Of course my gratitude and a dime would buy you a cup of. . .
[Crap! How many guys here can remember when coffee cost 10 cents?? Get with it, Fu!]
I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but I see no threads at all in this branch of the Forum. If I'm right, and I'm the first, I apologise for asking an off-base question that might not be of much interest to others.
Background: I was reading a detective novel, and in it the main character is faced with a situation where he needs to get into his associate's computer. The associate has disappeared, and perhaps a recent file on her HD will tell him what he needs to know to proceed in finding her.
Uh-oh! The boot-up, login PASSWORD!!! problem. Try her dog's name, her boyfriends name, her SS#, etc. No good.
Meanwhile **I** am thinking, "WTF? pop in SimplyMepis Live, or Knoppix. . . Read all the text files you want!"
BUT, the plot thickens as it is revealed that the computer in question is a Mac G4.
My humble question to you is:
Can a Linux Live CD boot a Mac G4?
I realize it is a different architecture/processor from the machines I normally associate with the Unix/Linux OS's. On the other hand, I've heard OS X is somewhat based on BSD.
Whatever. I have NO experience with Macs. And the question doesn't affect me personally --it's just curiosity.
Anybody have any experience that could clue me in? I'd be grateful.
Of course my gratitude and a dime would buy you a cup of. . .
[Crap! How many guys here can remember when coffee cost 10 cents?? Get with it, Fu!]