I have an iBook G4 (identified as a PowerBook6,7 with 1GB of RAM) with Japanese OS. I want to make a backup of it before replacing it with an English OS. I'm struggling to reliably do it.
I downloaded an old Ubuntu 6 ISO and booted it. First problem is that the battery is dead, so the clock resets to 1980, and on booting most of the apps crash. I tried to image the drive with the following command:
I was able to make backup images to a FAT32 formatted USB stick, but there is always filesystem corruption. I tried two different sticks and an SSD, all failed with the same issue. I have one complete image but I don't know if it's good or corrupt.
In an attempt to determine if it was good, I used md5sum with dd. The value from
was different to all the images I made, corrupt or otherwise.
I tried Lubuntu 16.04, but it won't boot on my iBook. It gets to the desktop and hangs. Is Ubuntu Server 16.04 worth trying?
Is there some free Mac software that can do this? Basically I just need to create a drive image that I can restore later if needs be. I don't want to take the drive out because it's a real pain on these iBooks.
I downloaded an old Ubuntu 6 ISO and booted it. First problem is that the battery is dead, so the clock resets to 1980, and on booting most of the apps crash. I tried to image the drive with the following command:
Code:
sudo dd if=/dev/hda conv=sync,noerror bs=128k | split -b 2000m - /media/usbdrive/image.dd.
I was able to make backup images to a FAT32 formatted USB stick, but there is always filesystem corruption. I tried two different sticks and an SSD, all failed with the same issue. I have one complete image but I don't know if it's good or corrupt.
In an attempt to determine if it was good, I used md5sum with dd. The value from
Code:
dd if=/dev/hda conv=sync,noerror bs=128k | md5sum
I tried Lubuntu 16.04, but it won't boot on my iBook. It gets to the desktop and hangs. Is Ubuntu Server 16.04 worth trying?
Is there some free Mac software that can do this? Basically I just need to create a drive image that I can restore later if needs be. I don't want to take the drive out because it's a real pain on these iBooks.