Re: Just CANNOT get this G3 iMac to boot from Linux or BSD.

2009-08-23 Thread Nathan T. Templeton
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

Re: Just CANNOT get this G3 iMac to boot from Linux or BSD.

2009-07-07 Thread solomon herscovitch
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

Re: Just CANNOT get this G3 iMac to boot from Linux or BSD.

2009-07-07 Thread Jarett DeAngelis
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

Just CANNOT get this G3 iMac to boot from Linux or BSD.

2009-07-06 Thread starkruzr
Hi folks, Was hoping I could rely on your collective genius to help me out with this. I have a G3 iMac DV Graphite, G3/400 with 384MB of RAM, which I've been trying to get FreeBSD to install on. Here is a summation of my trials and travails thus far: Upgraded the firmware to the latest. Went