James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Christoph Maier wrote:
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 12:40 -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Christoph Maier wrote:
Hi,
I have a question that doesn't directly have to do with Linux.
I am trying to install (a very old version of) Yellow Dog Linux on my
old Mac Powerbook (G3 Lombard, I think). I screwed up the installation
sequence; now I have Linux installed on a few partitions, but at boot
time, neither Mac OS9 nor Linux are recognized.
The Mac OS 9 restore CD does not mount any of the hard drive partitions,
but if I'm trying to reformat the drive, it warns me about the
partitions I'm about to delete.
So, the hard disk partitions still seem to be there, but the rather
basic tools on the restore CD can't mount them.
What should I try to do?
I think you are saying you don't particularly want to restore OS9; you
just thought that was your only choice, but seeing the warning makes you
think you can still salvage the botched install. Is that kinda right?
No. I need to recover the OS9 stuff. I have some programs installed I
have nowhere else (Adobe FrameMaker and Illustrator, for example).
So I need to be able to boot to OS9 again.
Knoppix may nevertheless be useful. You haven't yet said whether it runs
or tells you anything.
!!! Oh wait. Is there even a ppc Knoppix?
Maybe not. But there may be some other ppc livecds you might use for
diagnostics -- eg:
http://www.gentoo.org/news/20030603-ppclivecd.xml
If no luck there, I suppose you might have to remove your drive and
connect it to another system. Hey, ?us is the expert at helping people
do that. (I didn't want to give the exact name because Gus might think
I've been too freely volunteering him lately. Oh, whoops!)
Linux has full support for the HFS/HFS+ filesystems used on the Mac. I
once put M68K Linux on a really old Mac IIsi. I recovered the old data
by first putting the drive in my Linux PC, mounting the drive and doing
a normal copy.
The kernel modules for hfs and hfs+ are already in the Fedora kernels.
Not sure about the others.
Gus
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