Ubuntu/Kubuntu on Mac G5.

[Larry Grover]

Brian Durant wrote:
> Sorry for top posting, but I am using Mail.app in OS X, which  fulfills 
> all of my needs except that I have to top post :-(

Sounds like you got this sorted. ;)

> I want to install Kubuntu Dapper Flight 3 on a second SATA internal  
> drive. In the system profile, my Macintosh HD shows up with "disk0s3"  
> as the BSD name, whereas the HD I want to install on has the BSD name  
> of "disk1s3". Does the command for "sata/scsi: sudo mount -t hfsplus / 
> dev/sdaX /mount/point" still apply for Ubuntu/Kubuntu?

I'm a little fuzzy on how the BSD partition names map onto the linux 
names (I've only got one dual boot OSX/linux system, and it is in linux 
99% of the time), but the second SATA drive in the system (disk1 in BSD) 
should be sdb (second SCSI/SATA drive); s3 should be either partition 3 
or 4 in linux, so either sdb3 or sdb4.

If you boot the Dapper live CD you can probably figure it out using the 
fdisk command:
fdisk -l /dev/sdb
should list the partitions on the second SATA drive, and you should be 
able to figure out which linux partion is disk1s3 from the size.

> I tried the Ubuntu Dapper Flight 3 PPC live-CD, which is the newest  
> available, so the fan problem must still not have been addressed.

That's too bad.  From what I had read, I though the thermal/fan control 
issues on the G5 power macs had been resolved.

Regards,
Larry