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Dear Listmembers, |
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Thanks to Joe McMahon's explanation of some boot messages onscreen and |
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Pieter Van den Abeele's advice to use the 2004.0 universal cd, I downloaded |
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and burned the isi image of that new version and I am now able to boot |
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Gentoo on the G5. |
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I also mastered the first steps before the actual installation procedure |
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(changing root-password, creating new user, activating thermal management, |
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activating the proper keymap). Thanks a lot, Pieter and Joe! |
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Nevertheless, reaching the stage of partitioning the ATA-harddrives, I did |
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not manage to find the two harddrives via mac-fdisk: |
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Typing mac-fdisk /dev/hda brings up the lines |
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/dev/hda |
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Command (? for help): |
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In order to get the partition table I type "p" (without quotation marks) at |
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the end of the last line. That is what is showing up on screen: |
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/dev/hda |
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# type name length base (size) |
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Dump: name /dev/hda len 8 |
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/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 2 @ 1 (1.0k) Partition map |
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/dev/hda2 Apple_HFS CDROM 1246764 @ 16 (608M) HFS |
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Blocksize=512, number of Blocks=1246780 |
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DeviceType=0x1, DeviceId=0x1 |
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The device hda2 must be the cdrom containing the Gentoo Live CD, but I have |
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no idea about what hda1 is referring to, and why it (the hda, not the |
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partition table, I mean) is of such a small size. |
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Perhaps some useful additional information (though I don't know if it is |
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relevant at all): I have one harddrive of 152 GB and one of 70 GB, both of |
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them showing up in Apples system profiler in one branch/directory below |
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k2-sata-root, this directory being on the same level as my cdrom-drive. |
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Any helpful hints or explanations form your side are welcome! |
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Markus |
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