Yeah, I'd be okay with the slow pace of copying and installing files if it actually installed the bootloader correctly :)
Does anyone know of a good PPC livecd that would let one mess around with files once they're there? I was reading something someone said about an OpenBSD install and they mentioned that all they had to do was copy their ofwboot file from the installation disc to the root directory of /, and then suddenly everything worked as long as you started in OpenFirmware with some arcane boot command. Is that sounding familiar to anyone? -- Jarett T. DeAngelis, MS Sr. IT Support Engineer Distributed Support Services, College of Arts and Letters Office of Information Technology 938 Flanner Hall University of Notre Dame On Jul 7, 2009, at 10:15 AM, solomon herscovitch <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 6, 6:14 pm, starkruzr <[email protected]> wrote: >> Went through the FreeBSD installer, found that the FreeBSD disklabel >> editor apparently cannot repartition drives (???), installed the >> system in sort of a strange way in that I had to make / on the 6th or >> 7th partition on the drive (the first 5 or so were 50MB partitions >> that it wouldn't let me delete or change). Still should have worked, >> but didn't. No matter what I install -- Free/Net/OpenBSD or YDL -- >> the machine will not boot from the hard drive after installation is >> complete. All I get is the flashing "sad Mac/question mark hard >> drive" icon. > > I was through that before. I spent about a month of free time > downloading and buring all six YDL discs and trying to install it. > The worst part was the copy file stage (after choosing the settings): > it took about four or five hours to read each CD. And I saw that same > scary partition list as you. I think removed everything but the very > first partition (1MB in size, "apple bootstrap"). Then a /boot > partition, and then everything else as one. I do not know how well > supported the hardware is for FreeBSD, but Yellow Dog should know what > it is doing and manage to install correctly. > I had a Bondi Rev A 233MHz, 256MiB. > Just a warning: I completely removed YDL a week later, because it was > unusable. To slow for graphical applications (the graphics chip in > Rev A is terrible), and more important: the screen was WAY too dark. > Black was black, but what should have been white was about 10% grey on > any other screen. I had to move my head in real close to make out > small text. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
