on 15/02/2002 22:39, Chris Tillman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:19:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> on 14/02/2002 22:19, Chris Tillman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:38:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> on 14/02/2002 04:49, Michael Schmitz at >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Obvious workaround: copy the packages to a sane filesystem before use. >>>>> ISO9660 qualifies, BTW. >>>> >>>> no CD burner. >>> >>> It would be very easy, if you have room on your disk, to initialize a >>> partition as ext2. Then mount both that partition and the HFS >>> partition in the installer environment (you'll need mount -t hfs for >>> the one) and use cp -R to copy everything to the linux partition. >> >> what do u mean by "installer environment"? > > Well, assuming you don't have a working Linux system available to you,
which i do :) > before you get one installed, you have the installer itself which is a > mini-Linux system. If you switch to console 2 as described in the > install manual, or alternatively choose Execute a Shell from the > installer's main menu, you can execute some Linux commands. ok, i've seen that, and i've done that, kind of. when switching to the basic hard drive run linux, i had to do something like nvsetenv or some such thing to get it to run off the hard drive > >>> Then, to remove the metadata, if you mounted the new partition at >>> /mnt and your top level folder is 'debian', use >>> >>> rm -r `find /mnt/debian/ -name '.resource'` >>> rm -r `find /mnt/debian/ -name '.finderinfo'` >>> >>> The hfs partition won't let you remove them in place, AFAIK. You have >>> to copy them first. >> >> whoa! neato! the drive is a 258 MB oldie tho, and it's already mostly filled >> :(. an excellent idea tho. thanx! > >> i tried doing it from the outside (removing the invisible files, except for >> the DT files) - but obviously won't work, cuz i stil have the DB and DF >> desktop files there (which i think is the .finderinfo and .resource >> (CorrectMeIfI'mWrong)). i thot of formatting the thing as a PC disk, but >> there's no utils out there (AFAIK) that will do that on a mac. >> >> is this possible tho: mounting an HFS+ disk (1/2 of my startup drive is >> partitioned into 2) into linux, and then copy from there, and use the small >> drive as a temporary linux partition? or does it have to be on the same >> drive? > > It doesn't have to be the same drive, but the problem is the installer > doesn't speak HFS+, just HFS. Maybe you should lay out what your > drives look like now, partitions you've created, where the free space > is, where the mirror is and how much space it takes, and I can get you > going. I'm having trouble visualizing. 258 MB drive: the HFS partition is 81% full, and is /dev/sdb6 (argh i wish i could get the keyboard set in Linux!) 1 GB drive: has the Linux partitions; 1 root (50 or 60MB), 1 home (500), 1 user (500MB), and the swap (64MB). boot partition is /dev/sdc6 9 GB drive: has my OS Mac 9.1 startup partition and is in 2 equal parts. that would be the equivalent of /dev/sdaX. on that mirror (the 258MB disk, 1 volume), i have 41,9 MB left. now, the problem has evolved somewhat, in my favour: i've managed to install a whole bunch of things, but no matter what i do or edit (fstab e.g.) it WILL NOT install from that HFS partition, even tho it sees it when i mount it. what i probably have to do is do like u said above, which is delete all that meta data, do a dselect, then maybe the dselect installer will work??? (i'm sorry if i'm not too clear, i'm still learning the jargon). i assume that when the finder realises that drive doesn't have the desktop files, it will rebuild the desktop. eric
