Thanks for the advice, I will try playing with the partition table in
the Mac OS when I go to work tomorrow. Do you know if it is possible to
compile the Nvidia driver for the system once you have a working text-based
installed or does the install crash? Thanks again.
Michael French
Asheville Citizen-Times
IT Dept.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stew Benedict" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: new quicksilver macs
>
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Michael French wrote:
>
> > Trying to install Mandrake 8.0 ppc on one of the new 867MHz G4's
> > and running into probs. The cd boots alright when I hold down the "C"
> > key, but I cannot seem to find a video setting that will work, damn
> > Nvidia to hell. I finally broke down and went with the text only
> > install only to hit a wall again. I get to the part where it asks me to
> > choose a hard drive, and I choose the 2nd harddrive, an emtpy 30GB
> > western digital (the MAC OS is still installed on the the first drive
> > without any changes). After I choose the drive, it gives me an error of
> > "Uh Oh, no root partion", and then locks up. What gives?! Any
> > suggestions on the video would be welcomed to (excepting getting a new
> > card, my boss would never agree to ante up for that). Thanks for the
> > help.
> >
>
> I think Nvidia is being worked on for PPC, but nothing yet that I know of.
> On the hard drive, try initializing it in MacOS first, so it has a valid
> Mac partition table, whether you want to leave part of it HFS or not is up
> to you, but leave free space for the installer to do it's thing.
>
>
> Stew Benedict
>
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