Re: My first macppc install not going well.

2012-09-01 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
When you try the install, choose (S)hell. At the prompt try dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0c bs=1m count=1 You may have some old HFS partition table fragments lying around. Ken On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 01:51:43PM +0930, David Walker wrote: Hi. I got an iBook G4 and I'm having issues.

Re: My first macppc install not going well.

2012-09-01 Thread David Walker
Now I get ... MBR has invalid signature; not showing it. ... followed by everything working. I've installed and successfully booted from HDD ... Ken, you rock. On 01/09/2012, Kenneth R Westerback kwesterb...@rogers.com wrote: When you try the install, choose (S)hell. At the prompt try dd

My first macppc install not going well.

2012-08-31 Thread David Walker
Hi. I got an iBook G4 and I'm having issues. I'm going for an MBR scheme using the whole disk but I'm not sure fdisk is working according to the installation instructions but I might have a borked disk ... Here's what I see: Available disks are: wd0. Which one is the root disk? (or 'done')