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From Ubuntu back to Mac
Name: CB33 Date: January 14, 2006 at 14:51:29 Pacific OS: Ubuntu CPU/Ram: n/a
Comment:
I have a very old ibook, not clamshell, and I recently installed ubuntu on it. I would now like to go back but during the install for mac os x it says it cant find my hard drive. what should i do?
Name: Jake2 Date: January 16, 2006 at 08:51:32 Pacific
Reply:
This is more of a Mac question than a Linux question, but I think I can help. MacOS wants a special Apple partition map, whereas Linux can use a standard PC partition map on Macs. If you overwrote the whole drive, Ubuntu might have created a PC partition map, causing OSX to not see your drive.
PearPC, a Mac emulator, has instructions on how to prepare disks for OSX by first booting Darwin PPC and doing some command line partitioning.
You might also be able to get OSX to recognize your disk by erasing during installation with the disk utility (don't ask me how to get to it, it's somewhere in the menus). If that doesn't work, try the above method.
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Response Number 2
Name: CB33 Date: January 20, 2006 at 13:31:38 Pacific
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how do i set up pearpc, it looks advanced
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Response Number 3
Name: Jake2 Date: January 21, 2006 at 13:49:34 Pacific
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I should have been more specific. You're not interested in setting up PearPC. It just so happens that PearPC users need to do exactly what I suspect you need to do to install OSX. Download, burn, and boot a Darwin PPC CD, then start following the instructions at step 4.
The Darwin method will almost certainly work, but as I mentioned in my previous post, you might be able to start the disk utility and fix your problem from the OSX installation CD/DVD. Any modern OS should provide tools to install itself regardless of the current contents of the target disk.
Remember that you posted to a Linux forum. I have only minimal experience with Darwin and OSX. I also tend to prefer command line solutions, hence my recommendation of Darwin.
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Response Number 4
Name: CB33 Date: January 22, 2006 at 15:41:23 Pacific
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