[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the case of 170 German I'd recommend you stick with SuSE. Debian > does not have the fixed glibc and without that you're dead in > the water.
Hi Tom, I knew that as you said me before. But, Debian can be installed over another distribution :-) I'm hoping so > The problem that you're running into now is that you need to partition > your disk. It has an AIX disklabel on it, so you need to create a new > disklabel on it. > > Start up the SuSE YAST installer, Alt-F2 over (or was it F4 ... one > of those 8-) to the command line when you get up to the partition > step and invoke fdisk by hand onto the volume in question. I'll try it. But, I'm using a console (linux terminal with C-kermit in a null-modem). Alt+F? keys doesn't work (I was looking for a shell console or a syslog console to know about the error) But it's a good point. > You'll be imformed that the disklabel needs to be created, create > it, partition the disk as you normally would... save and reboot. > Now go into the installer and have at it... should just work. Do it need a particular partition like Apple's PowerPC? (I mean an small partition to store the boot images) > A co-worker and I have thought about pitching to hopefully improve > the situation for doing debian installs on IBM hardware. It's just > an idea on the drawing board at the moment... but we certainly > have an interest to pitch in as we can. Thanks you. -- German Poo Caaman~o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/chilelindo.html "La historia no se lee, se escribe"
