Jarett DeAngelis wrote: > 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. >> > > > > > I've had mixed success with different live cd's. With the G3 imacs, ubuntu works quite well, go for a 7.10 disk, easy to find from a google search. Just remember things like flash and what not most likely will not work as PPC dev pretty much ground to a halt with the intel macs where released.
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