IMac G3 USB Installation

First off, I'm fairly new to Arch; and loving it. I'm having problems booting the Arch installer to my iMac G3. The optical drive is broken (half a cd broken inside of it). I've tried to dd the installation iso to my usb drive. I assumed it wouldn't work, but it happens. Any tips for an Arch newcomer?

Some Models of PPC can boot from usb
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/LiveUSB_on_PPC
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=780320
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/installati … 05s01.html
https://sites.google.com/site/shawnhcor … n-firmware
https://sites.google.com/site/shawnhcor … s-in-linux
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Problem with USB installer and OS X Mavericks

Hi,
I found an interesting issue with a usb installer for OS X Mavericks where I used the Terminal to evoke OS X Mavericks disk maker utility. The boot able drive was created successfully and I erased my OS X partition and proceeded to install via the USB recovery utility. Unfortunately, while I was installing OS X Mavericks via this usb during the end of the installation the hard drive in my MacBook stopped functioning and apparently it was my computer going into sleep mode, although the monitor was turned on. I just noticed that the progress bar while the installer is unpacking just stopped and got stuck in the counter while saying about a second.
I tried two times installing via the recovery utility and to my surprise the issue occurred again. Therefore I am not using the internet recovery option for OS X and recovering from a Time Machine back up and should be back in Mountain Lion shortly. I think I am going ahead and install in place to avoid further issues and waste of my time.
Therefore, my question is, has anyone experience something similar to what I have described here while using an OS X Mavericks bootable usb installer?
Many thanks for your time and assistance.

Apparently, I am not the only one with this issue this is what an ArsTechnica viewer wrote:
Does the USB Stick installer only work on the computer where it was generated, e.g. due to pre-selected hardware drivers or something? I downloaded 10.9 on an iMac 27" 2011 and created the installer on a 8 GB USB 2.0 stick on that same machine, as described above.
However installation on a (test) MacBook Pro 13" mid 2010 did not work (existing installation was 10.8.5, in case that matters).
I booted successfully from the stick (holding the option key after turning on the MBP), wiped out the hard disk from the Disk Tool, then went on with the installation.
A progress bar appeared, saying something like "Preparing installation. Will automatically restart." The progress bar came to an end, saying "about a second" - and hung forever.
I then quit the installer manually after some minutes of waiting and rebooted without the USB stick, but no bootable partition was found (a blinking disk or so appeared).
I retried twice, noticing that no hard disk noise was to be heard while the progress bar moved (probanly some fixed time interval in the setup routine). Additionally in the Log window there appeared just one line from the very beginning like "Can not connect to /var/run/systemkeychaincheck.socket: No such file or directory"
Exactly like described here by someone else:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5474543?tstart=0
(In fact there are several such entries).
What does the installer do at this point? I am currently re-installing the previous 10.8 via Internet Recovery (the download speed is as expected and steady - so I don't think the Installer is stuck by trying to download something while "Preparing the installation" - or would it?
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/how-to-make-your-own-bootable-os-x-10-9-mav ericks-usb-install-drive/?comments=1&start=40
I am going to try my luck with the OS X Mavericks installer using the DiskMaker X utility once I upgrade in place using Mavericks.

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Hello,
I _finally_ upgraded from 10.6.8 to 10.7 and am experiencing some confusion that I hope can be eliminated here.
I downloaded Lion install app from store and made a Bootable USB volume <Mac OS X Install ESD>.
When I booted from this USB volume to install Lion, I got a utilities screen. I didn't know how to proceed with that so I rebooted and clicked on my <Lion install.app> that I downloaded. It said an update was available and I downloaded it and installed 10.7.3 without issue.
The app disappeared from my iMac. ( I do have it on a backup drive albeit not updated to 10.7.3)
Now I am wondering how do I upgrade my USB installer and also upgrade my MBPro without downloading from the store again??
I copied all the files from the USB Install drive to another disc, made a folder and have made a .dmg of it.
But if I use it I still would have to download the update.
Thanks for your consideration.

Thanks Kappy,
I just found this about using RecoveryDiskAssistant.dmg
http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/ss/Using-Os-X-Lions-Recovery-Disk-Assistan t_4.htm
Could I run this to an external FW drive or the outdated USB and then attach it to my MBP and install from it?
Peace.

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Turn off mobile data?
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Googling provides many tips- https://www.google.com/search?q=reduce+iPhone+data+usage&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

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USB installation media created using original windows 7 iso image and couple diskpart commands(resulting in clean flash storage with a single active primary partition) plus simple copying of the iso image's contents on usb flash.
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Eric,
Thanks for your reply. Realtek audio works only in playback. There is a stereo mix in the mixer but the recording controls are not operable with no sliders in the mixer for any recording option. Slider controls appear to be grayed out. Can't figure out how to enable them. Downloaded newest drivers to no avail.
The M Audio control panel has no apparent option for recording stereo mix. Adobe ignores the sound from the DVD or CD and shows flatline.
I'm trying to record the sound from the DVD not rip the track.
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Hi there, Mac-cognoscenti --
I'm interested in getting a GPS. My son-in-law showed me a pretty powerful-appearing one by Garmin. But when I asked him how you go about updating its sw or map info, he said they only support PCs (yeccch) as the platform from which you can do this. Naturally I am hoping that they start supporting Mac access as well, and you can be sure that I'll add my voice to that request as soon as I get one.
I believe that it now uses a USB connection between PC (yecccccccchhhh!) and GPS.
I'm planning on getting an iMac soon, and I understand that it can boot into Windows (yecccchhhhhhhhhh!) as well as MacOSX, and that using Parallels I can even run that other OS (q.v.) inside a Mac window.
I'm not looking fwd to this possibility because that will tempt others in my family to stray back into the Bad Old Ways rather than staying on the good side of He Who Provides lifetime tech support for our home LAN (c'est moi). +(Before the advent of Windoze-compatible Macs, I threw out all our Windoze machines and substituted Macs for them... now life is good for me, the tech support service...)+
Question: If I boot the iMac into Windows and run some sort of browser or FTP SW to glom the GPS updates into its filesystem, can anyone predict whether that OS can address the iMac's USB port(s) such that I can successfully D/L those updates into the GPS?

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If it isn't an Airprint supported printer, then you need a 3rd party driver on your iMac to print from an iPhone. Such as Printopia. As it worked in the past you probably have such a printer driver installed; check and see if it's running.
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Hi my CD-ROM drive is broken and i want to configure a partition for windows 7 and install it from a UB, but i don’t have the bootcamp option for usb installation visible.
My OSX version is Maverick 10.9
Mac model iMac11,2
Boot rom : IM112.0057.B01
My info.plist configuration file in the bootcamp package is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
          <key>32BitSupportedModels</key>
          <array>
                    <string>MacBook7,1</string>
                    <string>MacBookAir5,2</string>
                    <string>MacBookPro10,1</string>
                    <string>MacPro5,1</string>
                    <string>Macmini5,3</string>
                    <string>iMac12,2</string>
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          <string>13A566b</string>
          <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
          <string>English</string>
          <key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>
          <string>Boot Camp Assistant</string>
          <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
          <string>Boot Camp Assistant</string>
          <key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
          <string>Boot Camp Assistant 5.1.0, Copyright © 2013 Apple Inc. All rights reserved</string>
          <key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
          <string>DA</string>
          <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
          <string>com.apple.bootcampassistant</string>
          <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
          <string>6.0</string>
          <key>CFBundleName</key>
          <string>Boot Camp Assistant</string>
          <key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
          <string>APPL</string>
          <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
          <string>5.1.0</string>
          <key>CFBundleSignature</key>
          <string>????</string>
          <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
          <string>473</string>
          <key>DARequiredROMVersions</key>
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                    <string>IM41.0055.B08</string>
                    <string>IM42.0071.B03</string>
                    <string>IM51.0090.B03</string>
                    <string>IM52.0090.B03</string>
                    <string>IM61.0093.B01</string>
                    <string>MP11.005C.B04</string>
                    <string>MB11.0061.B03</string>
                    <string>MBP11.0055.B08</string>
                    <string>MBP12.0061.B03</string>
                    <string>MM11.0055.B08</string>
          </array>
          <key>DTCompiler</key>
          <string>com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0</string>
          <key>DTPlatformBuild</key>
          <string>5A11344p</string>
          <key>DTPlatformVersion</key>
          <string>GM</string>
          <key>DTSDKBuild</key>
          <string>13A566b</string>
          <key>DTSDKName</key>
          <string></string>
          <key>DTXcode</key>
          <string>0500</string>
          <key>DTXcodeBuild</key>
          <string>5A11344p</string>
          <key>LSApplicationCategoryType</key>
          <string>public.app-category.utilities</string>
          <key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key>
          <string>10.9.0</string>
          <key>NSMainNibFile</key>
          <string>MainMenu</string>
          <key>NSPrincipalClass</key>
          <string>NSApplication</string>
          <key>PreESDRequiredModels</key>
          <array>
                    <string>MacBook7</string>
                    <string>MacBookAir5</string>
                    <string>MacBookPro10</string>
                    <string>MacPro5</string>
                    <string>Macmini6</string>
                    <string>iMac12</string>
          </array>
          <key>PreUEFIModels</key>
          <array>
                    <string>MacBook7</string>
                    <string>MacBookAir5</string>
                    <string>MacBookPro10</string>
                    <string>MacPro5</string>
                    <string>Macmini6</string>
                    <string>iMac13</string>
          </array>
          <key>PreUSBBootSupportedModels</key>
          <array>
                    <string>MacBook7,1</string>
                    <string>MacBookAir3,2</string>
                    <string>MacBookPro8,3</string>
                    <string>MacPro5,1</string>
                    <string>Macmini4,1</string>
                    <string>iMac12,2</string>
          </array>
          <key>Win7OnlyModels</key>
          <array>
                    <string>MacBook7,1</string>
                    <string>MacBookAir3,2</string>
                    <string>MacBookPro5,5</string>
                    <string>MacPro2,1</string>
                    <string>Macmini4,1</string>
                    <string>iMac10,1</string>
          </array>
</dict>
</plist>
I have already tried this :
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21796614#21796614
and this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3435734?start=15&tstart=0
but neither of them have helped me to get the bootcamp work properly. Every time i try to modify this fie i get an error.
Please any help would be welcome.

No problem, forget the daemon tools and Microsoft usb tool, use BooTcamp Assistant for making bootable usb of windows 7 using that .iso.
you can do the following :
1. Add your Boot Rom Version(from system info) under DARequiredROMVersions.
2. Add Model Identifier(from system info) under PreUSBBootSupportedModels
3. Delete "Pre" from "PreUSBBootSupportedModels", so you have "USBBootSupportedModels"
The first 3 steps are same as before and if its not clear you can easily google solutions with screenshots.
The next step is only for OSX 10.9, as it employs some kind of code signature to prevent you from changing info.plist and cause bootcamp to crash.
4. Open your terminal, use the following command
sudo codesign -fs - /Applications/Utilities/Boot\ Camp\ Assistant.app
Sudo means using administrator privilege and u need to enter your mac password. And the command resigns the bootcamp application so that it runs with the new info.plist file and not crash.
5. Continue on with your installation....
Cheers.
P.S. back up info.plist before u change anything.
I installed windows 7 ultimate 64 bit two days ago using this mehod. It is working perfectly. Hope this will solve your problem.Please do make a backup of ur macbook before partition, for safe side.
while using that command mentioned in step 4., may be you get a option to download xcode or something like that, just click ok and download and install that, in my case it was about 101MB.

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I do both for good measure. I backup to computer and then after i disengage the device from the computer, I set the iCloud toggle back to ON and then perform the iCloud backup over wifi.
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[SOLVED] USB Installation Media Boot Problems

Hi all,
I'm having trouble creating a live USB stick that my new (to me) HP Elitebook
2730p laptop can boot successfully. Here is what I've tried so far:
1. dd with the latest stable Arch installation media
In other words:
# dd if=/path/to/archlinux*.iso of=/dev/sdb
Result: I can boot with the USB stick on my old Dell laptop (which is running
Arch) without issue, but can't with the new HP. The BIOS will freeze if the USB
stick is inserted, and will only unfreeze after I remove it.
2. dd with a recent Arch installation media snapshot
The snapshot is ``archlinux-2012.06.05_04-00-01-core-x86_64.iso''. I
install the image to the USB stick with the same dd method above,
and I get the same behavior: works fine on the old Dell, but freezes the BIOS of
the new HP.
3. dd with an old lubuntu iso
This time, I used an old lubuntu iso
(lubuntu-11.10-desktop-amd64.iso) with dd. This method
worked without a problem -- both my old Dell and my new HP would boot it without
complaint.
3. unetbootin with the latest stable Arch installation media
Creating the USB stick with unetbootin allows me to boot the stick with the new
HP, but the boot fails to the ramfs prompt after ``Waiting 30 seconds for device
/dev/disk/by-label/ ...'' (notice how there's nothing after ``by-label/'').
Adding ``vmalloc=448M'' to the end of the unetbootin boot entry makes no
difference.
4. Image Writer for Windows
The ``USB Installation Media'' wiki page suggests using ``Image Writer for
Windows'' to create a bootable USB stick. I tried this method using Windows 7
Professional, and the result was the same as attempts 1 and 2: the USB stick
freezes the HP's BIOS.
Other notes
I've checked the md5sums of all the isos I've tried
I've updated the BIOS on the HP laptop
I've used the same USB stick for each of the above situations
The new HP laptop does not have an optical drive, and I don't own an
external one
In attempts 1, 2, and 4, I noticed that cfdisk shows that the partition
that contains the installation files has both the ``Bootable'' and ``NC'' flags
set. The cfdisk man page says that the latter flag stands for ``Not Compatible
with DOS or OS/2''. I can actually remove this flag by using the ``Maximize''
option in cfdisk, which actually makes the USB stick bootable by the HP
computer's BIOS, but the boot eventually fails to the ``ramfs prompt
thingy'' after saying ``ERROR: '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201108' found, but the
filesystem type is unknown''
In attempt 3 (the lubuntu one), I noticed that cfdisk shows a bit of free
space in front of the partition that contains the lubuntu files. The ``NC'' flag
is not present when I run cdisk.
My current theory is this: I believe my new HP's BIOS is unhappy with the
``isohybrid-nature'' of the Arch installation media. Is there any way I can
confirm this, or obtain ``non-isohybrid'' Arch media?
As you might imagine, this has been pretty frustrating. Any help would be
greatly appreciated!
Daniel
Last edited by bebeababa (2012-06-10 15:04:43)

bebeababa wrote:
DSpider wrote:
Adding ``vmalloc=448M'' to the end of the unetbootin boot entry makes no difference.
Duh. That's for booting it from RAM (with MEMDISK) in case it doesn't map the entire file, which for some reason it didn't for the i686 iso on my computer. I probably should've specified it when I wrote the article. I'll add it tomorrow morning.
Speaking of which, have you tried it?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … O_from_RAM
Because you only seem to be using dd ("Image Writer" is the same) and Unetbootin (which had various problems since forever). The correct syntax for dd is:
$ sudo dd if=archlinux.iso of=/dev/sd[x]
Warning: Make sure to use /dev/sdx and NOT /dev/sdx1. This is a very common error!
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … _USB_drive
Haven't tried the ``Boot the entire ISO from RAM'' method yet. I'll give that a shot next.
The ``Boot the entire ISO from RAM'' method worked like a charm! Thanks,
DSpider!
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