I believe followed the directions on how to create a bootable USB drive from the Ubuntu website. My question is how can I get my Powerbook to boot from the USB drive? I tried doing the command+control+o+f and it just shows me the file icon with the question mark I also tried booting it holding the option button and it directs me to a screen with two buttons a refresh and a next button, I click on the next button and nothing happens?? kinda stumped.
Apple powerbook G4 17″ Trying to install Linux
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Best Answer
I am pretty sure the Powerbooks don't boot from USB drives. You'll need to burn a CD.
I'm going to assume that you downloaded Ubuntu from the homepage at Ubuntu.com, which will give you ISOs for Intel (x86 and x64) processors. Since your computer has a PowerPC processor, you will need to download that ISO: Ubuntu's wiki for installing on PowerPC
Edit - Someone on the Ubuntu forums says you should be sure to download the livecd version and set arguments for loading the kernel: