Help installing Linux on iMac 5,2 (no HDD write perms?)
Linux boots fine from USB*, but I can't install any distro (I get a generic "read-only filesystem" error every time I do). Is there any way to circumvent this?
::: spoiler * (unrelated problem) For some reason, BookwormPup and other modern Puppy Linux releases completely halt the system from booting (not even MacOS will boot, and I have to hard-shutdown to get it to turn off). :::
Is the file system read only from a bad drive? I don't know much about the iMac but maybe the drive is failing
The drive seems fine from MacOS, so probably not.
Have you formatted the drive? To this day linux distros do not like writing to HFS+ formatted drives.
I probably should've mentioned I want to keep MacOS, but I think I'll try resizing the partition from MacOS.
Edit: I don't have a CD to make a bootcd, and also my iMac uses old HFS.
You can download a 10.6 installer here. Use disk utility to write the image to a USB or something.
10.6 might require you to make a DVD sized partition and write it to that partition.
Am I really 0/2 on posting the right link?
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-x-intel-microprocessor