Caryl, the G4 has a powerpc processor, which executes an entirely different binary instruction set from the Intel-based Mac and Intel PC architecture machines. Since SOAS in all its incarnations contains binary executables prepared for an Intel processor, this won't execute on your G4 Mac. (I'm leaving aside corner cases of having some kind of hardware emulator on the G4.)<br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Caryl Bigenho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> <p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi Again,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(47, 106, 201);"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I downloaded </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/static/soas/soas-beta-1.zip" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/static/soas/soas-beta-1.zip</a>. It took about 1 hr 45 min on a DSL connection. I haven't opened it yet...will get to that later today or this evening. But, I have a couple of questions.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="white-space: pre;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Is it possible to burn this file to a disk and boot from it? If so, would I unzip it first?</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="white-space: pre;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If not, where should I put it? How do I access it?</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="white-space: pre;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Is there any chance this version would run on a G4 MacPowerbook? I have one on hand I could try it with (it does run OSX).</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I would still like to be able to run from the SoaS USB with the helper CD. Someone else was having problems wiht that too. Is anyone working on a solution?</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks,</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Caryl</span></span></span></p></div> <br>_______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"I don't consider him a particularly reliable source of information."<br> <br>-- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, on former Vice President Dick Cheney.<br>