On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > James Moss wrote: > > > > On Monday, 30 July 2001, at 11:22:58 (-0700), chamster wrote: > > > Have you been able to boot off this CD on other Macs, preferably a similar > > > model? > > > > > Oddly enough, I was able to boot this very machine several times and install > > debian, etc... but then I got a new hard drive. The Hard drive is fine, > > I've installed debian on it, so I know it can be done. Ever since I updated > > OSX from the "update Software" System Preferece, it hasn't worked. I'm > > completely baffled. On a side note, LinuxPPC still works (just tested it to > > see if it would work). I tend to want to put the blame on the kernel that > > is distributed with potato (since that's the boot disks I'm using). Are > > there newer boot disks available? Something perhaps with a 2.4.x kernel on > > it? > > That's funny, it worked until you did something dangerous like > "update software" in apple land, but you blame it on the linux > kernel?? This list is littered with posts from people that had > trouble with this sort of thing after letting osx near their hard > disk. >
I installed MacOS 9.1 then MacOS X and then debian... I have since run the software update under MacOS X and not had problems (knock on wood). I made extensive use of http://debian.jones.dk/debian/local/auryn/ and http://www.xiph.org/~jack/ibook/instnotes.html (just as a guide as I installed on a Titanium not on an iBook) - there may have been one more, but I don't have it handy. I created 4.5 GB partitions each for MacOS, with the remaining 10GB or so for linux. It took a little futzing to get the partitions just right... Cheers, -jennifer
