On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 12:58:42PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > I know it's considered impolite on this list to top-post, but Nicholas' > post is long and so close to perfect that it's worth leaving > un-disturbed. I have only one thing to add to it:
It is, and the good doctor, ran into every 'gotcha' I have ! <grin> > Long ago when I was doing this frequently to test the (then very new) > Sarge installer, by doing an "expert" mode install (setting > "DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low" as Nicholas recommends), you could skip over the > attempt to install quik by going to a step called (at the time) > something like "proceed without a boot loader" in the main menu. This > prevented the quik installer from destroying the boot-partition > information in NVAM. So when the time came to reboot, you went directly > into OS-9. There was no need for the "update Apple hard disk drivers" > step with the OS-9 CD that Nicholas describes. > > A lot of things have changed since Sarge, and this bit of lore may no > longer be applicable. I'll try it out with Lenny myself on a spare > disk, and report back. I'm missing something; How does one invoke 'expert' mode in the installer ? -- Regards, S.D.Allen - Toronto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
