On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Thomas Detoux
My friend told me it was an "ibook powerpc G4". That's all he could tell me, don't know if it's enouth informations for you.
IIRC, you should be able to swap the broken cd-rom drive for a standard laptop DVD drive. That would solve the problem(If you need a drive for cheap, email me directly if you are in the US).
By the way, what does the terms old-world and new-world refers to ? You said old-world is "any PPC based powerbook through the Wallstreet" but what does the new york stock excanche market has to do with this affair ? (I told you, I know nothing about tha apple world).
The second generation G3 Powerbook had the codename of Wallstreet. The 3rd had Lombard, the last was Pismo. Apple called all four generations just PowerBook G3, so codenames are used to differentiate which is which. The Powerbook G4 had names like Titanium, etc. As for Old World and New World, Apple used to have the Boot info on a ROM chip. These machines are called Old World. New World machines have the boot info on the hard drive. Basically, any Beige colored PCI Powermac is Old World and any colored PowerMac is New World. For the laptops, the G3 Lombard and Pismo and any of the newer Powerbook G4s and all the iBools are New World. New World machines are more disirable because the use newer, faster parts. Sorry to confuse you. Later --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org