A friend gave me an old imac g4 with an ailing hard drive. How to image it? I would normally use knoppix, my favorite linux. But the imac g4 is powerpc, and knoppix is x86.
What to do? Well, there's a nice distribution called Finnix which is very knoppix-like and works with powerpc.
It seems to be text only, but that isn't a problem for me, as the programs that I'm interested in are things like ddrescue, smartctl, and mount.cifs.
So far, it works great!
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