Ubuntu/Kubuntu on Mac G5.

[Brian Durant]

On 22. jan 2006, at 19.10, Larry Grover wrote:

> Brian Durant wrote:
>> BTW, I tried installing Ubuntu Dapper PPC Flight 3 on my G5. I  
>> have  switched the SATA drives so that OS X is now located in the  
>> lower  drive bay. As I also had my Firewire external drive turned  
>> on and  attached so that Ubuntu would register it as well.  
>> Therefore, the  drive I installed Ubuntu on was registered as / 
>> sdb. Everything went  find until Ubuntu tried to install yaboot.  
>> Here are the messages, in  the correct order, but maybe not total  
>> content as I had to write it  on a piece of paper from tty3:
>
> Unless you were planning to install onto the firewire drive, there  
> was no reason to have it connected during the Dapper install.  You  
> don't need to "register" the firewire drive during the install in  
> order to use it later -- firewire drives work fine as hotpluggable  
> devices under linux.
>
> I'm confused about which drive is what:  was the firewire drive  
> assigned to sda? is sdc the original OSX system drive? is sdb the  
> drive you are trying to install Ubuntu onto (along with the FAT32  
> and HFS+ partitions you mentioned in previous messages)?

OK, here are the snapshots of the drives. I have included all HD's  
connected to my G5. I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Brian

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