[clue-tech] Firewire CDROM drive

[David L. Anselmi]

marlowe at antagonism.org wrote:
> All,
> 
> I am trying to install Ubuntu 8.10 on my G3 Bondi Blue iMac.  I am
> experiencing issues where Ubuntu will not recognize the internal CDROM
> drive and attempts to install from a USB DVD-RW also meet with failure. 
> Does anyone have a firewire CDROM drive which I could borrow to attempt
> the install?  If not, I will install FC10 on it instead.

It seems unlikely that firewire will help.  Did you try this yet:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=964904

You might also have better luck with the alternate CD rather than the 
live one.

Dave