On May 26, 2005 09:09 am, Goran Poprzen wrote: > Hi all, > week ago I bought an old iMac G3 333MHz from our friends vfxweb.com > and, of course, I decided to put linux on it. Well, I dloaded > ubuntu-5.04-ppc isos (live and install). Live cd works perfectly. > Recognizes everything - sound, network, proper screen resolution. I > put new (not new, but empty) 8.4G HDD just in case to save MacOS > instalation on original HDD (6.4G, btw). Instalation went smoothly > (not really, but went thru - couple hiccups with CD reading), > installed base system and copied rest on the HD, setup timezone and so > on. Then, big moment - reboot into new ubuntu system. After reboot, > I've got blank white screen, and after some time mac folder with > question mark in the centre. > Research on ubuntu forums said that iMac doesn't recognize boot > partitions bigger than 8G. OK, default ububtu formating was 1M for > apple bootstrap (yaboot), 8.2 for /, and rest (350-400M) for swap. I > manually reformated / and now its 2.3G for / and almost 6G for /home. > Now my whole / is under the limit, BUT still the same - white screen > with ?folder?. Boots ok from live cd. > Does anybody have experience in installing ubuntu on mac? I will > continue to search at ubuntuforums.org, but would like to hear first > hand experience. Anyway, if nobody answers, I will keep you informing > what's going on. It will be lot of fun, I guess. > > Cheers, > Goran >
I bought one of the iMacs too and I upgraded the RAM to 512Mb and disk to 40Gb. It is my intention to install (dual booted) Mac OS X and debian linux 'sarge'. I'm sure its not rocket science, but I have no idea how to do this do you? Let me be more specific. I know nothing about Mac's!!! I assume that installing Mac OS X is going to be the easy part - stick the CD into the drive and boot. Do you know how to partition the disk? Do you know how to set aside a partition for the swap etc.? Is the linux CD going to be bootable or is there some magic to incant before the install? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
