Installation problem

[Don Nuckols]

My iMac DV has the original 10GB hard drive. I have no problem  
booting OS-X from an external Firewire drive, so wanted to use the  
small internal drive for Linux only.

It sure seems strange that both YDL and Ubuntu do essentially the  
same thing. I'm wondering if there is a problem in partitioning, but  
in automatic mode, that should be taken care of. You'd think. Or  
possibly something to do with the PRAM?



On Apr 27, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Kai Staats wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 15:49, Brant Williams wrote:
>> I have the same problem with an iMac G3 600 MHz.  Will not install
>> yaboot.
>
> Either a out-of-disk space issue ... or unable to remount the  
> partition to
> affect the write. Have you by any chance upgraded the drive to a  
> larger than
> original size?
>
> kai
>
>
>
>> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 17:11 -0400, Don Nuckols wrote:
>>> I have tried twice to install YDL, and each time it goes through the
>>> whole procedure, then at the end it puts up a small progress window
>>> entitled:
>>>
>>> Performing Post Install Configuration
>>>
>>> The status bar is about half way across, and the computer is totally
>>> locked. Cursor doesn't move, no response to any keys or key
>>> combinations, only the hardware reset button works.
>>>
>>> Oddly enough, I have a very similar effect when trying to load  
>>> Ubuntu
>>> (tried twice also). It goes through the whole process, then at the
>>> end it doesn't lock up but gives the message that it cannot install
>>> yaboot. Why, I don't know. But in both cases, the install isn't
>>> completed, so I can't use Linux to troubleshoot.
>>>
>>> This is on an iMac-DV. It's running OS-X Tiger, but is somewhat
>>> sluggish (usually), being only a 400MHz machine. Hoping to get a
>>> performance boost with Linux.
>>>
>>> Has anybody else run into this?
>>> Anybody found a work-around or fix around for this?
>>>
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