Hi PPC enthusiasts ! I have embarked in the (apparently suicidal) mission of installing OpenBSD 6.2 on the very first iMac, which is running Mac OS 8.6. I also have a Mac OS X CD which I use only for partitioning through disk utility.
Progress : I Downloaded the iso image OpenBSD 6.2 macppc and Burned it into a bootable CD, Partitioned my only hard drive with two equally sized HFS+ partitions. Mac OS 8.6 is installed in the first one. Goal: installing OpenBSD in the second HFS+ partition, keeping my MacOS partition intact. The problem: Although I followed the partitioning advise on MacPPC.install, the OpenBSD installer (i do not remember anymore if it was fdisk or pdisk) states that the drive does not have a valid partition table and shows the entire space as unallocated! The request: Someone, anyone willing to help me make my wish come true of installing OpenBSD in this baby, could help me with the following: 1) A brief but powerful description of the partitioning process. 2) a brief explanation of how is one supposed to “use Mac OS to move the bootloader to the first partition of the disk”, which is the last message after a successful installation (pretty shocking to read that if you just got rid of exactly that OS; I did this mistake in the past, twice) For both of these matters, The information contained in the installation document is simply not Enough for double booters. I wish that could be different. Additionally, there seems to be strong disagreement on wether openfirmware allows booting from a usb stick, even more when it comes to older machines, like my iMac. Has anyone here had any successful experiences with this ? Thank you very much in advance for any hints, comments and help ! Raymundo.-
