Dapper on a PowerBook G3?

[Harold Johnson]

Delving into the Ubuntu forums, I've already come across some information
that may be helpful for me in resolving my own installation issue.  I had
formatted my Mac partition as HFS Extended -- isn't that also known as
"HFS+"?  If so, I believe I may have mounted it as an HFS when trying to
copy to it, and I believe I should have mounted it as HFS+.  There's some
way of doing this but I don't recall how at the moment...

Harold

On 6/4/06, Harold Johnson <harold.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Has anyone here made an installation of Dapper on a PowerBook G3 yet?
> I'm in the process of installing Dapper on my Wallstreet (that's the model
> of PowerBook G3); I've had Hoary, Warty, and Breezy previously installed on
> this system.
>
> I ran into a bit of trouble earlier today, but it looks to be minor.
> Anyway, I'll try again later and see how well I manage to get over this
> hurdle.  Installing Ubuntu (or any flavor of Linux) on a Wallstreet requires
> some amount of trickery, perhaps more than your usual installation.  For one
> thing, you need to partition your drive to allow your PowerBook to boot into
> the Mac OS, where it finds the Linux kernel and then proceeds to boot into
> Ubuntu.  The trick is getting your Linux kernel copied onto your
> Mac partition during your installation; there are various ways of doing
> this, but the method I tried this morning didn't work.  (I tried following
> some instructions I found on a website regarding installing Breezy on a
> Wallstreet, but the process of mounting the Mac partition from the
> command-line and copying the Linux kernel to it failed.)
>
> I'm looking forward to hearing any success stories; I will gladly post
> details once I find my own (success)!
>
> Sincerely,
> Harold J. Johnson
> http://somethingthathappened.com
>
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