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Subject: The first 8GB harddrive limit for booting first iMacs. Help
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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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<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><P>My old iMac (1998) G3 seems to have the limit of the first 8 GB for installing any operative</P><P>system if we want it to be bootable.With Mac OS X it seems to be true,we run into</P><P>problems if the installation gets out of this limit.</P><P>I have a LinuxPPC distribution installed on one partition within my 4GB harddisk,so the</P><P>8 GB limit does not apply.Now I am installing a new 80GB HardDisk and I want to install</P><P>FedoraPPC,OpenSusePPC,DebianLennyPPC on it.</P><P></P><P>The problem is : Can Linux surpass this 8GB limit and be installed on partitions out of this</P><P>8GB limit,and be bootable and run without problems? It seems a hardisk controller limitation</P><P>of these first iMac models.</P></td></tr></table><br>



      
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