disk partition questions
Greetings - I would like to install debian testing in my 12" powerbook, configured to dual boot os x and debian and without blowing away my existing os x installation. (yes, I have my files backed up but I'd rather not reinstall everything if possible.) This system appears to have only two partitions a 32 KB Apple_Bootstrap partition and the rest as an HFS+ partition. I successfully resized the HFS+ partition using the commercial iPartition, to make room for linux but now I see that the existing bootstrap partition is not big enough. I booted the debian net installer from CD and went to the partitioning step. The summary tells me I have the following partitions: 32.3 KB 134.2 MB FREE SPACE 47.7 GB hfs+ Macintosh HD 32.2 GB FREE SPACE the 32.2 KB partition should be the existing bootstrap but is not being reported as such by the installer. There is 134 MB of free space reported between the partitions - can I simply expand the bootstrap partition into this space? the installer has a 'use largest continuous free space' option but the documentation dosen't really say what it will do to the bootstrap partition if I use this option. Any suggestions on how to proceed are appreciated. Cheers Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk partition questions
Oops, my bad. My disk actually had an Apple_partition_map by my brain registered Apple_bootstrap for some reason. I let the installer use all of my free space and it successfully installed the base system and bootloader. However, during the second stage of the installation, I was asked to select additional software - Desktop, etc. I selected Desktop and print server and I received some errors, the final was said it was unable to install the selected packages. I proceeded to finish the installation anyway and it looks like I have a working system, sans graphical desktop. I'll have to instal these manually. Hopefully there's some kind of meta package for installing all of the needed packages for a gnome or kde desktop? Or, perhaps some way to re-run the second stage of the installer? Back to the documentation M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
external monitor on 12" powerbook
Hola - Has anyone been successful at getting an external monitor working on a 12 inch aluminum powerbook? This machine has an Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200 video and I'm using the nv driver for my xorg.conf. I've tried many xorg configurations and even several different linux distros but still I can't get useable output on the vga out port. Anyone have a working xorg.conf file for this laptop? Many thanks! cheers Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: external monitor on 12" powerbook
On Jun 2, 2005, at 12:55 AM, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: Hello Mike, I had this working once (there was a nice thread about this topic here), but *only* the external screen worked. If that is what you want I could search the xorg.conf... Only the external screen would be fine. I would like to use the external screen when at my desk and the internal lcd when away from the desk. Hope I can do that without swapping xorg.conf files. I will try Antonio's suggestion when I get into the office and let you know if it works Cheers Mike Greets, Maxi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: external monitor on 12" powerbook
"Plug in the adapter cable on boot (or when resuming from disk), no need to have the screen connected yet. Later after you attached the external display use: Option "CrtcNumber""0" Option "FlatPanel" "0" in your X configs device section. Works fine on NV17 and NV32 with X.org 6.8.0 but should also work with recent XFree86. You then have the console's on the pbooks LCD and X on the external screen. Not perfect, but... These options got my external display working. The laptop LCD is not off but it is displaying some parts of the external X display sort of all mixed up and at the wrong resolution. If this does not harm the display then I can deal with it. I think I read something about this in another thread so I'll have to do some more digging. With these options, the internal display is stilled messed up, even when I disconnect the external display and restart X. I wonder if I can have X check for the presence of the external and use it when it is present, else, use the internal. I'll see if I can find some more info about what these options are actually doing. thanks for your help Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
