On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 02:09:49PM +0200, Lars Nood?n wrote: > Thanks. It turns out that I need two disks, both boot-floppy-hfs.img and > root.bin. > > I used dd on an i686 after trying other methods. > The MakeDebianFloppy script didn't seem to have instructions packed with > it so I moved on after 10 minutes of experiments. Perhaps that machine > (running OS 9) was missing AppleScript. Nor could I figure out diskcopy > on the first try.
To use it, you drag the image to the app. You're probably right, Applescript must have been turned off. > It would be a nice-but-not-essential extra to have the Debian install > process remind you of how much RAM is available. It would, however, be > really useful to have a little more detail about creating a swap partition. > Partition types "swap", "SWAP", and 82 seem to be ignored. What is the > proper thing to enter, if I use only the disks and no other tool? It's there in the mac-fdisk manual. I'll add something in the install manual: You have to name the partition 'swap' on powerpc. The type must be normal Unix. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
