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Street Treasure !!!

ivanb303ivanb303
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Everyone loves street treasure, this time the junk gods smiled on me. I found a iMac and a small LCD TV! I now have a dedicated TV/monitor for my room that I can use with any device I have modern and old and too my happy surprise it plays the sound out of my +2B no probs unlike my much newer big TV in the living room. The iMac looks like the first Intel based ones it's 1GB RAM and 150GB hard drive all in one desktop thing. It came with all the install disks all in great condition. It works just fine but what to do with it ? It's running Mac OSX 10.4.11. Suggestions ?

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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    nice, wish i got a mac free so i could fiddle about with it.
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • MatGubbinsMatGubbins
    Well done indeed. I too keep my eyes open for freebie stuff that people put on garden walls 'Free, take me'. I've had a few old desktop systems, freeview/Sky/BT boxes, video recorders and other small bits of electrical stuff, they are ideal for salvaging a spare hard drive or some cables.
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  • ivanb303ivanb303
    I'm trying to get Linux on the iMac but I'mt not having much luck finding a way to install it. It's the first Intel Mac series and the OS is too old for most methods I've been able to find. Any suggestions brain trust? :)
  • ZupZup
    Your iMac only boots from EFI, so you'll need a Linux distribution capable of booting from EFI. I remember using some kind of multibooter to boot another OS.

    Also, old iMacs are "picky" about DVDs. I only managed to boot from CD-RW or slow DVD-R.
    I was there, too
    An' you know what they said?
    Well, some of it was true!
  • hikokihikoki
    @ivanb303
    I think this thread has good information for you: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=102158
    Fuse-SDL-win32
    JSpeccy-win32-portable
  • ivanb303ivanb303
    Well I've managed to get a multi-booter going, I'm just having trouble partitioning the hard drive. When I boot the Mac it gives me a menu what to boot from. I can put a Linux cd in the drive and it recognizes it and I can boot from it. The guide I'm following though recommends to partition the hard drive from Mac OS first then doing it from the linux installation. Trouble is 10.4 Lion won't let you partition the disk if it's the one it booted from. But I'm getting there!
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    ivanb303 wrote: »
    Well I've managed to get a multi-booter going, I'm just having trouble partitioning the hard drive. When I boot the Mac it gives me a menu what to boot from. I can put a Linux cd in the drive and it recognizes it and I can boot from it. The guide I'm following though recommends to partition the hard drive from Mac OS first then doing it from the linux installation. Trouble is 10.4 Lion won't let you partition the disk if it's the one it booted from. But I'm getting there!
    like windows? you cant partition etc if your using the primary os drive someat like that, i always did it in a dedicated partition manager (is there one for mac? lol)
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • MatGubbinsMatGubbins
    as the advert with the lady talking about drawing a shark on the screen.... I can't do that on my Mac... Yes, I'm so rich I have a Mac as well as this flash PC, but I can't do that om a Mac... etc.. etc...
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    Download the latest version of Bomb Munchies Ver2210 4th July 2020
  • ivanb303ivanb303
    mel the bell wrote: »
    ivanb303 wrote: »
    Well I've managed to get a multi-booter going, I'm just having trouble partitioning the hard drive. When I boot the Mac it gives me a menu what to boot from. I can put a Linux cd in the drive and it recognizes it and I can boot from it. The guide I'm following though recommends to partition the hard drive from Mac OS first then doing it from the linux installation. Trouble is 10.4 Lion won't let you partition the disk if it's the one it booted from. But I'm getting there!
    like windows? you cant partition etc if your using the primary os drive someat like that, i always did it in a dedicated partition manager (is there one for mac? lol)

    Apparently it's straighforward to partition using later OS version say 10.6 and upwards but I have 10.4. When I boot the Mac now I get the ReFit menu asks you what you want to boot from so I'm halfway there. There might be a way to boot the Mac from a CD and then partition the hard drive. I'm kind of new to Linux what's your favorite distros ?

  • ZupZup
    ivanb303 wrote: »
    Well I've managed to get a multi-booter going, I'm just having trouble partitioning the hard drive. When I boot the Mac it gives me a menu what to boot from. I can put a Linux cd in the drive and it recognizes it and I can boot from it. The guide I'm following though recommends to partition the hard drive from Mac OS first then doing it from the linux installation. Trouble is 10.4 Lion won't let you partition the disk if it's the one it booted from. But I'm getting there!

    I guess that means "Boot from the OS installation disk, partition it and reinstall everything", not that you can repartition your disk from the installed OS.

    Try booting from a Linux distro, use clonezilla to make a backup and then re-partition the disk using gparted.
    I was there, too
    An' you know what they said?
    Well, some of it was true!
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    ivanb303 wrote: »
    mel the bell wrote: »
    ivanb303 wrote: »
    Well I've managed to get a multi-booter going, I'm just having trouble partitioning the hard drive. When I boot the Mac it gives me a menu what to boot from. I can put a Linux cd in the drive and it recognizes it and I can boot from it. The guide I'm following though recommends to partition the hard drive from Mac OS first then doing it from the linux installation. Trouble is 10.4 Lion won't let you partition the disk if it's the one it booted from. But I'm getting there!
    like windows? you cant partition etc if your using the primary os drive someat like that, i always did it in a dedicated partition manager (is there one for mac? lol)

    Apparently it's straighforward to partition using later OS version say 10.6 and upwards but I have 10.4. When I boot the Mac now I get the ReFit menu asks you what you want to boot from so I'm halfway there. There might be a way to boot the Mac from a CD and then partition the hard drive. I'm kind of new to Linux what's your favorite distros ?
    never managed to get on with linux even after 12 years or more of trying lol, fiddled with knoppix thats about it

    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • hikokihikoki
    edited December 2017
    Some distro based on Debian? since Fuse and Zesarux will mostly have been developed for that Linux as most of the software out there.
    I've read that Linux Mint 18.3 works well on PCs from around 2007
    I just use some Puppy versions which work well on old PCs
    Post edited by hikoki on
    Fuse-SDL-win32
    JSpeccy-win32-portable
  • ivanb303ivanb303
    It's what I've been trying to do is go Linux Mint. I keep having to start again cause I keep messing up the partitioning and I almost wiped one of my backup drives by accident. But I think I got it sorted now. It will be dual boot MacOSX and Linux Mint.
  • ivanb303ivanb303
    Well it is I success :D I write to you from the Mac on the fresh Linux Mint installation! This is much more useable OS for the modern age. Now to do something useful with it... :D
  • LunyLuny
    Nothing like a fresh install all minty fresh. I'm a Mint user, on my main PC. Its cool and fresh and does the job or me :)
    So well done that man!
    Sod it!

    @luny@mstdn.games
    https://www.luny.co.uk
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