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youbuntu
November 9th, 2009, 01:17 PM
Hi people. I wonder if someone would help me please. I've just booted my Blue & White G3 PowerMac (April 1999 model, if this is pertinent) from the PowerPC Karmic CD. I had previously booted the PowerMac from the Tiger DVD, and used Disk Utility to ensure the HDD was partitioned as ONE volume, in MBR (windows) partition scheme, and formatted in FAT32.

The Karmic Koala liveCD *cannot* see my hard disk, no matter what I try!!. I tried using the installer, Gparted, Unix "dd" command to zero it out... NOTHING!.

Am I going insane, or is there a simple solution - OS X can obviously access and "see" the HDD, as it boots from it.

Thanks folks - save my sanity! :D
tiresia
November 9th, 2009, 04:34 PM
Which kind of HD has your PowerMac G3? IDE or SCSI connection?
youbuntu
November 9th, 2009, 04:56 PM
Which kind of HD has your PowerMac G3? IDE or SCSI connection?

It's an IDE disk :)
tiresia
November 9th, 2009, 05:35 PM
Can't you see your HD if you go to 'places'?
youbuntu
November 9th, 2009, 05:43 PM
nope, not at all :p
tiresia
November 9th, 2009, 05:46 PM
It's quite strange, it shoudn't happen.
Anyway you can try to load the ide-scsi modulemodprobe ide-scsi
youbuntu
November 9th, 2009, 06:08 PM
Every time I do that, it sees my hyphen '-' as an underscore '_', even though when I type it into terminal, it shows a HYPHEN!.

This is a nightmare! lol! :D
tiresia
November 9th, 2009, 06:20 PM
It should be the same. Anyway you should also try with 'ide-disk'
Most important you should have a look on the kernel message when the system boots.
Or, if you don't want to waste much time, you could try with the alternate installer.
Just a question: did you install already MacOSX or you just booted the g3 with the MacOSX-installer?
youbuntu
November 9th, 2009, 06:28 PM
It should be the same. Anyway you should also try with 'ide-disk'
Most important you should have a look on the kernel message when the system boots.
Or, if you don't want to waste much time, you could try with the alternate installer.
Just a question: did you install already MacOSX or you just booted the g3 with the MacOSX-installer?

I've now abandoned that machine, as I've found out that there is no Adobe flash for PPC :(.
It's a VERY old Mac, and I really haven't the time to waste with it, today. Maybe I'll contact you tomorrow if that is okay?.

Thanks for your help :)
tiresia
November 9th, 2009, 07:28 PM
Yes, adobe has never released flash for linux on powerpc. This thread explaines how to see youtube videos on powerpc's computer http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1269122