Re: imac g3 installation problem
In data 27/05/2006 22:37 Rich Johnson ha scritto:
On May 27, 2006, at 3:27 PM, Giulio Canevari wrote:
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Before you go shopping take a close look at all the cables, connectors
and adapters. For power an extension and/or "Y" cable might come in
handy.
I don't think i have got one.
See also http://www.lowendmac.com for indentifying just exactly which
model you have. The site also has a fair bit of other useful info.
Another good resource is http://forums.macosxhints.com/
Good links, thank you.
Oh, and before I forget, _some_ of the G3 iMacs can boot from a USB
drive or memory stick. This may be your easiest path if yours is one
of them. If you have a spare USB drive, it wouldn't hurt to try.
The problem is that with mem stick i'm unable to do an apple bootstrap
partition.
But i have had an idea: can someone create a blank image with dd that
fits into my usb key, partition with mac-fdisk ( of course if it
supports using a file as a device ) as described into debian install
guide [1], compress it to the best ( bzip2 or maybe even better 7zip )
and send it to me?
The command here is:
dd if=/dev/zero of=image.img count=247296
to create a 126615552 byte image, that is the poor size of my usb key.
Then i'll try putting it to the key always with dd, hfsutils are also
avaible on x86.
[1]
you will need to repartition the stick. On Mac systems, run mac-fdisk
/dev/sda, initialise a
new partition map using the i command, and create a new partition of
type Apple_Bootstrap using
the C command. (Note that the first "partition" will always be the
partition map itself.)
then, if it works, bzip2 -9 image.img or 7za a image.7z image.img
After that following chaper 4.4.2. Copying the files -- the flexible way
i should be able to boot from usb.
Thank you in advance,
--
Giulio Canevari
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