From: Anthony Renaud <anthony_renaud65@yahoo•com>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: The first 8GB harddrive limit for booting first iMacs. Help appreciated.
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 12:18:03 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <96913.5566.qm@web35204.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
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My old iMac (1998) G3 seems to have the limit of the first 8 GB for installing any operativesystem if we want it to be bootable.With Mac OS X it seems to be true,we run intoproblems if the installation gets out of this limit.I have a LinuxPPC distribution installed on one partition within my 4GB harddisk,so the8 GB limit does not apply.Now I am installing a new 80GB HardDisk and I want to installFedoraPPC,OpenSusePPC,DebianLennyPPC on it.The problem is : Can Linux surpass this 8GB limit and be installed on partitions out of this8GB limit,and be bootable and run without problems? It seems a hardisk controller limitationof these first iMac models.
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2008-12-07 20:18 Anthony Renaud [this message]
2008-12-08 7:38 ` The first 8GB harddrive limit for booting first iMacs. Help appreciated Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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