Hi listers, After messing around for a long time... I finally got a working bootdisk for mac-os (the 7.5.1 netboot kind form Apple kind). It wasn't any bootdisk herocis. I just rememebered of some friend having macs.
So I went about happily installing debian. I tried to repartition in
MacOS with the "Apple HD SC setup" tool, but it doesn't see my disk,
probably since it's a IDE disk and so doesn't live on the SCSI bus. So
I thought I would just partition from inside debian, like I do on my
i386 machines.
Once in fdisk, there were 5 partitions on the disk (it's only a
250MBer). I deleted the HFS one, and created a 50Meg one. but
the Fdisk wouldn't allow me to set the type for the disk eventhou i
used the "C" command "oposed to the "c" command used for creating
"linux disks" (how can you create swap space with this mac-fdisk
anyway??).
I knew I was going to mess it up, but that didn't matter because the
mac would ask me to format de disk anyway, if it couldn't read it,
right? WRONG :D. Ofcourse something strange went wrong when installing
the core files and I rebooted the machine. and TaDa, no harddisk shows
up, and no box asking me if i want to format it either.
I guess I can take-out the mac disk, format it for i368 and see if the
mac then complains when I put it back in. It may be just "readable"
enough not to warrant formatting at the moment. But i guess that
doesn't solve my problem. I need to partition the sucker in a half
decent way, is there some program out there that i can use on my mac
that acctually finds my IDE disk and lets me partition it in sutch a
way that i can put a linux root and swap next to it?
By the way, in the manual for debian-woody for m68k the links to the
mac-fdisk pages are broken it shows something like:
"** No manual page could be found **".
Regards,
Marijn.
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