On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 11:24:43PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Thanks to Chris and Brad for pointing this out. So I reckon that means > there's no way to distinguish or create an HFS+ partition using pdisk?
Well just by name. > >Which debian-imac release are you using, the 2.2 or 3.0? Perhaps there's > >been some corruption of the yaboot binary or something. > > > > > The installation instructions pointed me to a .sit archive at > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/debian-imac/debian-imac.sit; that > site doesn't say what release it is, and I'm not at the Mac at the OK, that's the 2.2 (potato) version. > moment to read any ReadMe's, etc. The installation instructions also > point to > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/ > to get the files individually, so I reckon it's the stable/potato > release. I'll know more Monday when I get back to the Mac. > > >When you dragged the 4 files, you put them on the disk icon for the Shared > >partition, not on the desktop, right? > > > Yes. I dragged the whole debian-imac folder to the MacShared icon, then > opened the MacShared icon, opened the debian-imac folder, opened the > "copy these files to the root of hard disk" (or something similar) > folder, grabbed all four files, and copied them (not moved - I used > Alt-Click&Hold&Drab, or Command-, or whatever the proper key is that > does a copy instead of a move) to the open MacShared icon, which would > be equivalent (I believe) to dropping them onto the MacShared icon from > the desktop. That's right. I'm just puzzled. Many people have downloaded that release (over 3000), and this is the first time anyone's told me about a problem. The files from the official Debian site, of course, are linked in the installation manual. -- *------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]
