Re: iMac G5 - Help

2005-11-08 Thread Dylan
Sven, Please pardon my ignorance, but I'm fairly new to Linux. Could you (or somebody) please at least outline the steps I need to take to get this working? Thanks, Dylan On 11/8/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 03:30:08PM -0600, Dylan wrote: > > I tried thi

Re: iMac G5 - Help

2005-11-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:36:41PM -0600, Dylan wrote: > Sven, > > Please pardon my ignorance, but I'm fairly new to Linux. Could you (or > somebody) please at least outline the steps I need to take to get this > working? Grab the mini iso, burn it on a cd, insert in the machine, hold down the 'c

Re: iMac G5 - Help

2005-11-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 03:30:08PM -0600, Dylan wrote: > I tried this. I get Kernel Panic on the "install-power4" option; the > "install-power4-2.4" and "install-power4-2.4-expert" (or whatever it's > called) won't load. No wonder, ppc64 in sarge kernels should best be avoided, and upgraded to etc

Re: iMac G5 - Help

2005-11-08 Thread Dylan
I tried this. I get Kernel Panic on the "install-power4" option; the "install-power4-2.4" and "install-power4-2.4-expert" (or whatever it's called) won't load. On 11/7/05, Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > go grab the installer iso, burn it to disc and drop it into the cdrom > > either te

Re: iMac G5 - Help (Gewijzigd door Marc Coevoet)

2005-11-08 Thread Marc Coevoet
Op 8-nov-05 om 10:44 heeft Benjamin Herrenschmidt het volgende geschreven: On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 05:46 +0100, Marc Coevoet wrote: I bought a Blue White rev 1 and it doesn't even do OS X ;-( That has nothing to do with linux... The RAM mustn't be good for that machine (it was quite picky)

Re: iMac G5 - Help

2005-11-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 05:46 +0100, Marc Coevoet wrote: > I bought a Blue White rev 1 and it doesn't even do OS X ;-( > > I see that linux does install sometimes, but only with one > 64Mb memory chip or so... > > Yesterday my Apple dealer gave me 2 128Mb SDRAM, > to no avail ... That has nothing

Re: iMac G5 - Help

2005-11-07 Thread Marc Coevoet
I bought a Blue White rev 1 and it doesn't even do OS X ;-( I see that linux does install sometimes, but only with one 64Mb memory chip or so... Yesterday my Apple dealer gave me 2 128Mb SDRAM, to no avail ... Memory in the G5 is precious too .. the story's on http://users.fulladsl.be/spb1381

Re: iMac G5 - Help

2005-11-07 Thread Dean Hamstead
go grab the installer iso, burn it to disc and drop it into the cdrom either tell your mac to boot to it (in osx) and then reboot or hold down c when you turn on your pc you can also do a media free installation. Dean Dylan wrote: I bought an iMac G5 with the sole intention of dual booting Li

iMac G5 - Help

2005-11-07 Thread Dylan
I bought an iMac G5 with the sole intention of dual booting Linux; however, I'm not too Linux savvy and have postponed the installation until now (I bought the machine late June). I'm primarily an OS X guy and have only run Linux on old x86 boxes. Would it be asking too much of you if I were to as