on 24/02/2002 16:07, Ramiro Checa García at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > I have an IMAC 600 and I want install Debian 2.2r5. I have several > partitions: > > /dev/hda1 partition map > /dev/hda2 driver 4.3 > /dev/hda3 driver 4.3 > /dev/hda4 Apple_Driver_ATA > /dev/hda5 Apple_Driver_ATA > /dev/hda6 Apple_FWDriver > /dev/hda7 Apple_Driver_IOKit > /dev/hda8 Apple_Patches > /dev/hda9,10,11 Apple_HFS (hda9 with MacOS 9, hda11 with MacOS X) > /dev/hda12 Apple_HFS > /dev/hda13 Apple_Bootstrap (46Mb) > /dev/hda14 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap (300mb) > /dev/hda15 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 / (2.9GB)
it's this you should point at with the command (in that shell u invoke from the installer). type: nvsetenv 'ofpath /dev/hda15' . that should tell the kernel (?) or whatever it is that that's the root boot, and it should boot into linux from the HDD. the swap is just a long series of blocks, used as virtual memory. you may have to see the "... partition table" (the exact command i don't remember) before you you do the nvsetenv thing, to have the bootloader detect the partitions correctly, but that should work. it works on an old world 7500 anyway. (this is all from the install manual). btw, if you want to edit something on the HDD from that installer, you type "cd target" from the shell, and you can see the stuff installed (i've had to do that to edit my init.d stuff...). i don't have a clue what to do with a new world PM, but i'm sure the new world folks on the list can help with that. that iMac of yours is a new world powermac, so don't do what i just typed, unless you have an older powermac running debian lying around ;). eric
