On 7/25/05, Rainer Gutkas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there! > > Maybe I'm just to dumm to complete this task, because I know I did it > once, but can't remember how. > > The problem is that I try to set up Ubuntu-Warty as server OS on my G3 > Powerbook Wallstreet, which is old-world. So I got the > installation-kernel, but don't know how to get the kernel warty > installed onto the hfs partition with bootx on it.
Try the procedure at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallOnOldWorldMacs -- (ignore the miboot stuff and use BootX on your Wallstreet). It sounds like a scary tightwire act, but you'll "pivot_root" between the installation kernel and the installed kernel to get the hfs driver you need. There are several of us discussing this at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=27831&page=1 so you might want to post there if you still have trouble. > My harddisk is hda, the hfs partition hda7 and the root partition hda9. > > oh and from the partitioning program I saw that the startup-Partition of > the startup disk is hda6. Don't get too confused by all the strange partitions on a Mac OS volume. All you really need to know is the partition with your Mac OS and BootX, and the partitions you've set up for root and swap. > So actually I don't know how to mount these devices during the setup > progress using a shell. > > mount -t hfs /dev/hda7 /mnt/macos > > doesn't work. Yes, sadly the installation disk's kernel doesn't do hfs. Fortunately you can "pivot" to the installed kernel that does!
