iMac network hardware

[Rob Diehl]

It's not as hard as it sounds now that I know what to do. During setup, 
it will eventually pop up a red screen and say it can't detect any 
network hardware. At this point, press CONTROL+OPTION+F2. What this'll 
do is switch you to second virtual screen. From here, type "modprobe 
bmac" <w/out quotes> at the prompt. Then press CONTROL+OPTION+F1 to 
switch back to the first virtual screen. Go back to main menu at this 
point, and go to the network hardware detection menu option.

The other problem you're going to run into is with partitioning your 
disk. Ubuntu, just like OSX, will not boot if the operating system's 
main partition extends beyond the first 8 GB of your drive. So you have 
to manually resize the root partition "/" to 7 GB. Then if you want to 
use the rest of the disk, create another partition to fill up that space 
and mount it as whatever you like. I mounted mine under "/home".

Maybe if I get the entire process down, I'll write up a short blurb 
detailing all the isues involved in installing Ubuntu on the old iMac. 
Hopefully all of these issues will get worked out in time.


>>OK, I switched to TTY2 and modprobe'd bmac, returned to TTY1 and re-ran 
>>the network setup option.
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>Ummm, if this is the kind of stuff I need to know in order to get my network running in Ubuntu, I'm in trouble. I have _no_ clue what or how to do any of that. 
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>Brett
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