Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:49 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: Did you happen to try playing with GRUB2 here? Sorry, no. Not enough time right now. Maybe over the weekend... Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-15 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Rick and others. On 07/16/2010 12:19 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > One thing I did *not* do was tell it "use the whole disk and partition > it automatically" -- I'd have to replace the hda disk with a spare to > try that and I don't have time for such experiments just now. If > anybody else has a

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Gary wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Just to be absolutely clear, the "NewWorld bootblock" partition I am talking about, and I assume Gary is talking about, is the /dev/hda2 partition

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Gary wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Just to be absolutely clear, the "NewWorld bootblock" partition I am talking about, and I assume Gary is talking about, is the /dev/hda2 partition in the following display, with type "Apple_Bootstra

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-15 Thread Gary
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > Just to be absolutely clear, the "NewWorld bootblock" partition I am talking > about, and I assume Gary is talking about, is the /dev/hda2 partition in the > following display, with type "Apple_Bootstrap".  This is quite distinct from > the "/bo

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-15 Thread Rick Thomas
Just to be absolutely clear, the "NewWorld bootblock" partition I am talking about, and I assume Gary is talking about, is the /dev/hda2 partition in the following display, with type "Apple_Bootstrap". This is quite distinct from the "/boot" directory in your root partition. It is only

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-15 Thread Hanspeter Spalinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/15/2010 05:19 PM, robert b wrote: > I had to have my hard drive disk on my Mac Mini replaced. It is now blank. > > Is there a way to install Debian without any OS installed? From all I've > read, it seems like MacOSX needs to be installed b

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-15 Thread Chris Reich
Both Lenny and Squeeze can be installed on PPC Macs, at least of the G4 processor family. I can't speak about the G3 processor for I have only little experience with them. You most emphatically do not need OS X. All my PowerPC macs run Debian out of the box and do not have OS X cohabiting the sy

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Gary wrote: You wrote: Is there a way to install Debian without any OS installed? From all I've read, it seems like MacOSX needs to be installed before Debian can be installed. Is this still true?' Only if you plan on multi-booting between OS X and Debian.

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-15 Thread Gary
You wrote: > Is there a way to install Debian without any OS installed?  From all I've > read, it seems like > MacOSX needs to be installed before Debian can be installed.  Is this still > true?' Only if you plan on multi-booting between OS X and Debian. If you're only running Debian then mac-fd

installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-15 Thread robert b
I had to have my hard drive disk on my Mac Mini replaced. It is now blank. Is there a way to install Debian without any OS installed? From all I've read, it seems like MacOSX needs to be installed before Debian can be installed. Is this still true? I may be able to get my hands on a Mac OS C

Re: ISO For Recent Debian Squeeze

2010-07-15 Thread Eraina and Richard jenkins
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:21:24 -0700 Gary Driggs wrote: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-dvd > > Wonderful!! Am downloading it for testing right now!! Ta! Richard -- Eraina and Richard Jenkins Canb

Re: ISO For Recent Debian Squeeze

2010-07-15 Thread Gary Driggs
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-dvd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.d

Re: ISO For Recent Debian Squeeze

2010-07-15 Thread Eraina and Richard jenkins
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:44:18 -0700 Gary wrote: > Although the discussion is hopefully helpful, I'm not sure anyone's > actually answered Richard's original question re where to find squeeze > installer ISOs... http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds > > -Gary > > ++