Hi Pierre, thanks for your rapid answer: I hope you'll get my reply as soon as possible (although subscribed I am not receiving messages from the list and not all posts I sent went through ;-( .... )
* Pierre Bauduin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < > [2007-06-08]: > ------=_Part_78649_49780.1181313729169 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: inline > > 2007/6/8, Ennio-Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > [Sorry for POSSIBLE DUPLICATE] > > [...] > Hi there, > > Yes this is a weird issue. > > Maybe is it the hardware of the iBook G3 300 MHz which is unable to > recognize the 80 GB hard disk. Mmh, this is one of the first doubts I had; however, using the MacOS9 install CD I could see the whole 80GB and make 8 partitions (in one on my attempts). > > I've made a page that might by helpful to you, here: > http://pierre.baudu.in/ibook/ > (This page is about installing Debian 4.0 on my iBook G3) > I found it very interesting. Did I miss something or you didn't make any 'Apple_bootstrap' partition? (which should be made by the debianppc installer thus violating the 'must' not touch the partition map made by Mac you underlined in your document). > Also, on another Mac, I have encountered a weird problem where, just after > having installed Debian 4.0, the machine becomes unbootable, and indeed > shows a flashing "?" inside a disk, look at the installation report I made: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422836 > (However, the problem happened on an OldWorld Mac, using the BootX > bootloader) > I 'subscribed' this bug, adding my own experience. I hope my post gets through! > Hope this could help, > Greetings, Sure, it helped a lot! Best regards, Ennio -- [Perche' usare Win$ozz (dico io) se ..."anche uno sciocco sa farlo. \\?// Fa' qualche cosa di cui non sei capace!" (diceva Henry Miller) ] (°|°) Ennio. (Please change . for .dot. and @ for .at. in my Reply-To) )=( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]