Dapper on a PowerBook G3?

[Harold Johnson]

Well, after reformatting my hard drive, making my Mac partition HFS and then
running through my Dapper installation again, I was able to get past the
stage I had been stuck on before -- I was able to mount my Mac OS partition
and then copy vmlinux and initrd.gz to it.  Continuing with my installation,
my PowerBook was reboot and BootX (the boot loader required for these
OldWorld Macs) kicked into the installer again...

...or tried to, I should say, since the installer never got past the
following line:

"Begin. Waiting for root file system... ...
Done.
ALERT! does not exist. Dropping to a shell!"

Then it dropped to the BusyBox shell and now I don't know what to do next.

Any ideas?

Thank you,
Harold

On 6/4/06, Harold Johnson <harold.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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