Re: IMac G5 boot, memory

On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 05:06:03PM -0400, Joe Nosay wrote:
> I had removed the ram then restarted. Didn't look at devaluas for the USB
> because of taking out the ram.
> It is a dual core G5.
> Next time I am at my friend's place where the machine is kept, I will look
> at the devaluas for the USB.
> Will probably need to burn a disc. Also need to see if it is a DVD+/- for
> the readable disc writer.

Given the amount of issues people had reported on this list alone with
removable USB and/or optical media, I'd suggest you try netbooting your
iMac instead of messing with fragile DVDs.  This is the first option
recommended by grehan@ in his guide* and that's how I've installed
FreeBSD on all my G4/G5 machines.  HTH,

./danfe

*) https://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/install.html