On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 11:38:44PM -0400, Chadwick wrote: > On 9/25/05, Jay States <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been playing around with installing Debian and the installer > > wants to partition the whole HD. This is the way I partitioned the HD > > with Apple's Disk Utility > > > > (1) 30GbBOS X (Mac OS Extended) > > (2) 25GB Apple (Mac OS Extended) > > (3) 20GB Free Space > > Man! Am I the only one with a 60GB drive in my powerbook? Of course, > you didn't say powerbook.. but this leads to the question of: has > anyone upgraded their internal PB (1.33 GHz) drive? On top of that.. > google shows my drive [TOSHIBA MK6025GAS] as a 4200rpm drive.. aren't > there 7200 rpm drives for this machine??
I have a 120GB seagate 5200 rpm drive in it, worked fine, upgrade went flawlessly, driver was a bit expensive though. I had a last-model tibook though. > > I want to install Debian on the third partition... why is the installer > > only allowing a whole HD partition? > > Installing Debian on the third partition would need a manual > configuration of the parition table. You also need to make a 800K > bootstrap partition (an option from the manual partitioner. In the > end you will end up with an odd setup (I have 9 partitions and a > little free space at the end -- Bootstrap is partition 8, and Debian > is partition 9) There is also an option to install in the biggest free space or something. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
