Re: beige g3 - "FIRST DISK" question

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

Hi Adrian,

Is there some reason you are using woody?  Sarge has been out for 
several months, and lots of folks have had excellent luck with it -- 
even some of us with Beige G3's.  My own experience has been using 
BootX and MacOS-9, so I can't help you with the "quik" bootloader, 
which is what you need if you want this machine to be completely "Apple 
Free".  But there are others here who can.

I will note that you can squeeze the necessary parts of MacOS into less 
than 100 MB, so if disk space is the issue, using BootX and MacOS need 
not be a major burden.  Also, you can buy a 40 GB IDE drive for under 
$50 these days, so adding disk space shouldn't be a financial problem.  
For comparison, Eric Dunbar in a posting to this group calculated that 
the electricity to run an old G3 for a year will cost you between 
$50-$100, depending on your assumptions about uptime and cost of 
electricity.

Enjoy!

Rick


On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:56 PM, adrian crisan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to install woody on a beige g3, 266 some 256 mb and a 4 gig 
> ide hard.
> I start the process via floppy, partition the hard, install the base 
> file, however when is time to make "system
> bootable" it gives me this error:
>
> "THE REQUIRED ACTION CANNOT BE PERFORMED BECAUSE THE ROOT PARTITION 
> MUST BE ON THE FIRST DISK"
>
> ... well I'm lost, I have the 4 gig ide with the following partitions:
>
> /dev/hdd1      Apple_UNIX_SVR2     root     7894463@524353 (3.8G)
> /dev/hdd2      Apple_UNIX_SVR2     swap    524288@64  (256.0M)
> /dev/hdd3     Apple_partition_map   Apple    63@1 (31.5K)
> /dev/hdd4      Apple_Free                Extra    1@524352 (0.5k)
>
>
> ... ok, I'm confused what would be the "first disk"  if not hdd1?
>
> (I installed two years ago woody in a similar machine, and I remember 
> that the
> only time I succeded was when I replaced the IDE hard drive with a 
> SCSI ... but now I
> want to work around and use the just the IDE ... if possible ... and I 
> want just debian on this machine no mixed use
> with appleos).
>
> So, I need help from you guys out there that are much smarter than me; 
> please give me a hint/guide me
> on what to do.
>
> Thanks for help!
>
> _adrian_
>
>
>
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