Trying to install Gentoo on a G3(UPDATED 3/22/05)

zecora · Last edited by zecora on Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:18 pm; edited 3 times in total

I put in cd and boot up but nothing happens, am i suppose to press something when it is booting or burn the cd a different way?

bruda · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:15 am Post subject:

Try holding 'c' down during the boot sequence to boot from the CD.
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DJ_Max · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:32 am Post subject:

How did you burn the CD Image? Hopefully as an Disk Image.
Hold down the "c" key as suggested, also you can hold down the option button, then chose the CD-Rom drive.

But holding the 'c' key should do it.
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zecora · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:16 am Post subject:

thx, that worked.

How do i go about starting the partition. Like i cannot delete certain ones.

zecora · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:20 am Post subject:

zecora · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:16 am Post subject:

UPDATE:

OK i can delete every partition except /dev/hda1 (which you can't delete) So then i create the default partitions that are in gentoo handbook and I save patition table. Then i go to create the filesystem and it says. /dev/hda4 not created or not there. When i go back into mac-fdisk /dev/hda. All the partitions are created and there. So i go back and try to create the filesystem and Same error comes up.

What do i do?

zecora · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:13 am Post subject:

anyone?

stimuli · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:33 am Post subject:

Are you typing 'w' before quitting mac-fdisk? This actually writes out your new partition map you just created with 'C' etc.
mkfs.ext3 or mkreiserfs /dev/hda4 will do the trick.
Perhaps rebooting is necessary, although I've never needed to reboot first.

Print out your partition map if you can

zecora · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:47 am Post subject:

yes i pressed "w" then "q" to quit. After i didn't get it to work i went back in and all my work was saved and there. I will post table. I am gonna try 2005.0 liveCD since it just came out not to long ago.