Re: Partitioning Mac drives

2014-05-02 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 2 May 2014, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 05/02/2014 03:16 PM, Finn Thain wrote: > > > But if you end up using Emile instead of Penguin, hopefully you won't > > need your kernels on an HFS partition, because you can then avoid > > Penguin and therefore avoid MacOS. > > Haven't

Re: Partitioning Mac drives

2014-05-02 Thread Andreas Schwab
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > Crawling through the logs on my Debian desktop where I connected the > drive, this was the partition layout directly after attaching the > disk for the first time: > > May 2 13:25:57 z6 kernel: [1993556.470074] sdg: [mac] sdg1 sdg2 sdg3 sdg4 > > Interestingly

Re: Partitioning Mac drives

2014-05-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 05/02/2014 02:55 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > … but when running on another arch you want mac-fdisk-cross, I think. > Which was removed in 2001, though. Yes, but the point is, libparted *is* supposed to work. If it's unable to create partition tables which are recognized in MacOS, it's a bug.

Re: Partitioning Mac drives

2014-05-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 05/02/2014 03:16 PM, Finn Thain wrote: > I use MacOS 7.5.3 because it is lighter and runs well on every Mac that > Linux/m68k runs on. Also, the Penguin docs recommend MacOS 7.5. Hmm, ok. But 8.1 runs very smooth so far, the disk is just not bootable anymore after using gparted. > MacOS 8 was

Re: Partitioning Mac drives

2014-05-02 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 2 May 2014, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > I have started installing Debian/m68k on a Centris 650 which I wanted to > set up as another buildd. This is my first attempt to install Debian on > an 68k Mac, all my previous installation efforts were on Amigas. > > I installed

Re: Partitioning Mac drives

2014-05-02 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jack Ponissi dixit: > actually use gparted on mac68k, the tool for the job comes under the > name mac-fdisk The tool does exist… https://packages.debian.org/sid/mac-fdisk … but when running on another arch you want mac-fdisk-cross, I think. Which was removed in 2001, though. Or just put the di

Re: Partitioning Mac drives

2014-05-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 05/02/2014 02:37 PM, Jack Ponissi wrote: > It has been a long time since I did this but I don't think you can > actually use gparted on mac68k, the tool for the job comes under the > name mac-fdisk (or pdisk if it's directly from apple's sources). I was actually doing the partitioning on my PC,

Re: Partitioning Mac drives

2014-05-02 Thread Jack Ponissi
Hi, It has been a long time since I did this but I don't think you can actually use gparted on mac68k, the tool for the job comes under the name mac-fdisk (or pdisk if it's directly from apple's sources). Sent from iPhone Il giorno 02/mag/2014, alle ore 14.08, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > h

Partitioning Mac drives

2014-05-02 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! I have started installing Debian/m68k on a Centris 650 which I wanted to set up as another buildd. This is my first attempt to install Debian on an 68k Mac, all my previous installation efforts were on Amigas. I installed a new, larger hard drive into the Mac (160 GB Seagate with the help of