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.
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