On Jul 6, 6:14 pm, starkruzr <starkr...@gmail.com> 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 imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
