Kali on an Apple Powerbook G4?

[Heber Cloward]

Guys,
To prevent me from taking a sledgehammer to an old Powerbook G4. Has anyone been able to do that here? It cant seem to find a version that will work on the old Macs. There is an ubuntu version that I keep crashing but at least it tries to start.
Any advice would be appreciated :)
Heber

[Eugene]

I have at least been able to boot Kubuntu on my Powerbook G4, only problem I ran into is partitioning the drive to allow it.

[grifter]

I use Debian PPC on my G4 Mac Mini machines.  Works wonders.  I use the 'net install' CD and then press 'c' to boot from the disc.

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.2.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-7.2.0-powerpc-netinst.iso

Tim

[Heber Cloward]

cool thanks.  I'm interested in using a version that is used for the pentesting like Kali. Will debian cut it?  Or should I break down and put Kali on one of my ancient laptops?.  I'm new to the Linux thing so I'm still wandering around in the forest.  :)

[grifter]

Ohh okay.  Well the basic story is that the G4 Macs use a PowerPC CPU and can't use i386 or amd64 based distros.

Debian makes a PPC version and some of the testing tools exist.  As for the tools Kali provides, that is another story.  Neither Kali or Pentoo support PPC chips.

I have two PPC Mac Mini boxes that I have used for WIFI Access Points, they work amazingly well with Debian PPC.

Tim

[Heber Cloward]

I was afraid of that.  I was doing a bit of online RTFM and pretty much assumed that.  But thought I'd give a shout out to see if anyone had any suggestions.  There is a Lubuntu that is pretty popular it looks like.  It was given/dumped on me so I'm not really attached to what happens to it.  OS10.5.x  cant do any 21st century stuff it seems.  Safari works....  And thats about it.  That Wifi access point  idea sounds cool actually.

I'm on the fence if I want to tinker with it, or donate it to the space for others to play with.  It might be safer in the hands of someone who doesnt want to take a baseball bat to it every time I try to do something with it.  What do you guys normally do with things that work but you dont have any interest in?

So looks like I'll be trying to put Kali on my Ideapad this week.
Thanks for the help.
Heber

[Dean Pierce]

Most of the tools on kali should work just fine on ppc.  I used gentoo on my old ibook back in the day, and pretty much everything worked as expected.  Debian etc would have all the main tools that you would need (ettercap, wireshark, nmap, basic python libraries, etc), and anything else you would want can just be installed manually (BeEF, metasploit, etc).

  - DEAN

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[grifter]

Yea, Dean is right.  All the tools are available, but not packaged the same like Kali.  You'd have to figure out what tools you wanted and then use 'apt-get install' to add it.

[Matt Harrington]

I wonder if most of these tools will run in a rasperry pi. You could use the distro you prefer at some small monetary cost, avoiding the time and frustration (it doesn't sound like you like this machine). Is it a laptop?

Btw, it has been maybe 15 years, but I used to run yellow dog on ppc. It was best prepared for open firmware at the time. I wonder if that is still a thing. 

[Heber Cloward]

I decided to spend a few hours on it, killed the iOS completely.  It looks like more work for little gain so I shleved it. But instead got the 17" version of this

http://www.groupon.com/deals/gg-hp-envy-8gb-or-12gb-laptops

You might want to look at it.  Its a groupon for a series of refurbs.  17" i5 for 469 and a 15" i7 touchscreen for 669.  It only has about 2 days left on it.

On Friday, November 8, 2013 9:18:13 PM UTC-8, Heber Cloward wrote: