I need to find a way to make image file of hard disk booting linux mint 9 lxde on all in one imac g5 powerpc

Sun Jun 3 15:33:26 UTC 2012

OK Let me clarify things.
First I installed Debian via the business card boot CD onto an iMac G5 (all
in one 20 inch Apple computer, late 2005)

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.5/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-6.0.5-powerpc-businesscard.iso

at the boot prompt I typed:
expert64 url=mintppc.org

This installed Debian with a Linux Mint 9 LXDE desktop via Ethernet
Internet connection. Depending on your Internet connection speed, this is a
lengthy process, I would prefer NOT to repeat every time I repair an iMac
G5.

Therefore, I would like to image the HD for rapid deployment like I do with
the images I created for Intel based systems.

BTW:  Terabytes image for Linux software can be used by changing the date
in the BIOS to the same month and year the image files were created (April
2012).

I got Iceweasel to play YouTube videos by installing the add-on,
FlashVideoReplacer then tweaking it to automatically play video in
standalone mode via gnome media player.

Unlike my X86 Linux Mint 9 LXDE image, I am unable to install many aps like
Damnvid, K9copy, DVDrip, etc.

I cloned the HD in my hackintosh via copycatX 5 running on Kalyway Tiger
10.4
The 80GB HD was cloned onto a 320GB HD.  The clone booted on the iMac G5.
Gparted is unable to resize the home partition to use up the 200+ GB of
free space left on the clone HD.
I will try resize2fs and fdisk.

The following is the partitioning scheme of the cloned HD:

/dev/sda1 unknown 31.50 KB I believe this is a special Apple thing
/dev/sda2 hfs bootstrap Size: 977.00 KB Used: 208.00 KB Unused: 769.00 KB
/dev/sda3 ext3 mount point: / size: 6.53 GB Used: 3.17 GB Unused: 3.35 GB
/dev/sda4 linux-swap Size: 1.39 GB
/dev/sda5 ext3 mount point: /home size: 66.59 GB used: 1.28 GB Unused:
65.31 GB
Unallocated size: 223.59 GB

The iMac G5 system:
PowerPC PPC970FX, altivec supported (1800.00MHz)
Debian GNU/Linux 6.05

In Iceweasel click tools >Add-ons > search for FlashVideoReplacer
Install the add-on then restart Iceweasel

Click FlashVideoReplacer icon (top right corner)
Change preferred method to standalone
Check mark Launch player automatically >Close
Goto youtube and play a video
The video will play in gnome media player automatically

I had to add my user account to the Sudoer's list:

su
echo 'username ALL=(ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers.
 Why is powerpc so damn hard to image?

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:25 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> | From: William Muriithi <william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>
> | On 3 June 2012 07:39, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> | > charles chris wrote:
> | >>
> | >> All I have achieved so far is a bootable clone of the hard disk.  On
> my
> | >> Kalyway Tiger Hackintosh I used copycatX 5 to clone the source Hard
> Disk of
> | >> 80 GB onto a 320 GB.  However, it creates tons of free space.  Perhaps
> | >> gparted can resize the home partition to consume all available free
> space.
> | >
> | Correct, use gparted or fdisk to extend the partition across the whole
> | hard disk and then use resize2fs to extend the filesystem to fill up
> | the partition
>
> This advice isn't necessarily useful for Charles.
>
> He's trying to use a Hackintosh (PC of some sort pretending to be an
> Intel-based Mac, running some version of OSX with patches) to clone
> and adjust a disk for a PowerPC-based Mac so that the PPC Mac can run
> its own OSX *and* some Linux.
>
> Charles' goal doesn't sound unreasonable, but it requires knowledge
> that I don't have.  I suspect most TLUGers are in the same boat:
>
> - Although many of us have been forced to learn how to make Windows
>  and Linux co-exist, fewer of us have had to do so with a OSX.
>  If you paid for OSX, usually you actually want it (unlike Windows)
>
> - PowerPC is obsolete enough that it is over the horizon for most of
>  us.  Both in the Mac world and in the Linux world.
>
> I don't even know how PPC Macs partition disks.  I doubt that fdisk is
> at all relevant.  I don't know about gparted.
>
> Pure guesswork: if the newer and larger disk and filesystem work in
> the PPC Mac (i.e. OSX boots and sees all that extra filesystem space)
> then do everything from there on the PPC.  In particular, follow some
> PPC Linux cookbook to adjust the partitioning and do the installation.
>
> Justification for that suggestion: cross platform incompatibility is
> all too common, and you are crossing a heck of a lot of platforms:
>
> - PPC vs x86
>
> - Linux vs OSX
>
> - differing OSX versions
>
> - differing Linux versions
>
> - generic PC hardware trying to run OSX
>
> Is there no way to have both disk drives connected to the PPC Mac at
> the same time?  Either temporarily or permanently? That might make
> some things easier.
>
> | > I had the same issue when I put a larger drive in my ThinkPad last
> year.
> | >  However, since I used LVM, I was able to use that space by creating
> another
> | > volume and adding it to my system.
>
> I've played enough with Windows / Linux coexistence that I consider
> that problem easy in theory.  Practice often turns up surprises.

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