Here is my report so far I thank you for suggestions. I am here researching. Looks like if you want flash player to be the latest on that Mac Power Book G4. Even Debian does not have the latest flash for PPC <-----PowerPC MAC. Note the following link. By the way you have a new world MAC PPC not an old world MAC PPC. Unfortunately you do not have an Intel processor on that computer. <----nevermind no Power Book G4's have an Intel CPU. The following links are your operating system candidates: http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=163625 Gentoo way too deep for now.<----look into it. [just for fun]. So for a full fledged web experience you will possibly end up without 'current' flash on your machine.[period] You will have 'Open Office' <----perform Office duties such as Resumes. Note: the following link concerning MAC specific buttons: http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html#boot DO THIS---->Zap PRAM. cmd-opt-p-r <-----Hold down until 10 chimes. unless you ZAP PRAM nothing will boot in 'open firmware'. <----not even an .iso OR your OS X CD. After zapping PRAM: then---> HOLD: c :key<----during boot.... try it for fun [make sure you have your OS X cd in your cd-rom drive. during this time. [You can just exit out of it by turning your pc off after it boots]. Let me know. then install your OS X original .. who cares you already have your files backed up on your [Flash-Drive]. Sincerly, paul g -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140403/bf0b27f7/attachment.html>