Install on Mac G3 Alternative CD software selection Problem

[Gondor81]

I recently acquired a Mac G3 tower. I did not like the Mac OS 9 install that was running on the system so I decided to put Ubuntu linux on the system. It has a 6 GB HD with 512 MB of RAM. I checked the system by running the Live CD with no known issues. I could browse the web, play games, creating office documents with open office work. So I decided to install using the live install. This did not work. It would hang at 46% everytime. I let it run over night with no progress and no error messages. I was able to move the mouse around, but nothing responded when I clicked on it so I shut the system off and tried to install with the alternate CD. Everything was going great until I got to the Install and Select Software section. The alternate CD gave an error message and said that I could skip this part so I went on to the next section and it had an error as well. When I selected the yaboot section it continued on and I was able to do the Finish the Install. Then when I rebooted I got a prompt instead of the gnome desktop. I thought, OK and used apt-get to install ubuntu-desktop. While it was installing there were errors on hda. I am thinking, I must have a bad HD so I replaced it with another HD. This did not help.

I went through the process again with a different HD and had the same issue. When I got to the Install and Select software section it died. This time I did a Disk check and there was a file that was corrupt. So I burned a new disk at 8x and tried again. The same file was corrupt when I did a CD check. Not sure where to go next. Does anyone have suggestions?

Thanks.

[dstew]

Did you check the downloaded .iso Md5 checksum? Even though the Live CD ran, there might be a corrupt file in the .iso that is needed for installation.

[stream303]

You may want to post this question in the Apple forum for wider exposure.

Which G3 tower do you have?
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g3/index-powermac-g3.html

Note that some systems that are capable of dual-drives have had some problems needing a custom yaboot configuration. To preserve your existing mac-os, I'd use that replacement drive, and try to keep the partitioning to no larger than 125 gb unless you have performed a firmware upgrade.

Be sure to see these two faqs

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ
and
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCKnownIssues

If you have a dual-drive capable machine, there are a few issues with that, but I'm sure that the Apple PPC gang will do their best to help you out..

[Gondor81]

Did you check the downloaded .iso Md5 checksum? Even though the Live CD ran, there might be a corrupt file in the .iso that is needed for installation.

I when I ran the CD check and got the check sum error, I downloaded the alternative cd again and burned it off.


You may want to post this question in the Apple forum for wider exposure.

Which G3 tower do you have?
http://www.everymac.com/systems/appl...wermac-g3.html

Note that some systems that are capable of dual-drives have had some problems needing a custom yaboot configuration. To preserve your existing mac-os, I'd use that replacement drive, and try to keep the partitioning to no larger than 125 gb unless you have performed a firmware upgrade.

Be sure to see these two faqs

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ
and
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCKnownIssues

If you have a dual-drive capable machine, there are a few issues with that, but I'm sure that the Apple PPC gang will do their best to help you out..

Thanks for the suggestions. I have read through the PowerPC FAQ and Known Issues pages as well as done a lot of searching on my own. The system that I have is a Blue & White. I am not sure what processor speed, but it has the 16 MB ATI card, and the PC100 RAM as well as the 6.0 GB QuantumEX HD. I replaced the 6.0GB drive with a 10GB Quantum Drive. I am going to try and download the CD again and burn it then do an MD5SUM check on it. Both times I burned the 2 different alternative install CDs I got an MD5SUM error on the same file name.

[Gondor81]

As pointed out in another thread, the Mac G3 I am using has a problem with CD-RWs so I burned the alternative install iso to a CD-R and everything worked great.