I recall dealing successfully with this issue. I think you had to go into the partitioning stage where it creates device nodes and then cancel the partitioning. But I also had a rescue cd which was Gentoo installer a live console.
But recently a rescue option has been added to the Debian install cd so I would try that first. If you have a old style plain hfs partition around that is good because without hfs plus utils package may not be able to write to hfs plus On Sep 2, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Gregory Richardson <pressma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all thanks for looking. > > I've installed Wheezy on a 9600 PPC (oldworld) using bootx and the network > install cd, and I read while searching the list that I have to copy the > kernel and init from the install to my hfs partition containing bootx in > order to boot the system. What I've also read and tried is to start up the > installer and let it get to the partitioning stage, drop into a shell, mount > the partition containing Wheezy (works), chroot into that partition, modprobe > hfs (which seems to work), and mount the hfs partiton (mount -t hfs /dev/sda6 > /mnt) in order to copy the kernel to the mac. At that point it gives me an > error: mount; special device /dev/sda6 does not exist. I have macos 8.6 on > sda and Wheezy on sdb. /dev in Wheezy doesn't contain any sda or sdb files, > but I was able to mount the wheezy partition with mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt. > > Any hints or ideas would be greatly appreciated. This thing is driving me > batty. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/01e060da-87b1-49c2-a4e7-d54cf3225...@gmail.com
