Re: Old World Mac mounting troubles

2013-09-02 Thread Brad Boyer
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 01:41:22PM -0700, Brian wrote: > 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 The hfsplus driver in a modern kernel can write to an HFS+ file system as long as it isn't journ

Re: Old World Mac mounting troubles

2013-09-02 Thread Brian
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 insta

Old World Mac mounting troubles

2013-09-02 Thread Gregory Richardson
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 t

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-02 Thread larry
On 01/09/13 03:33 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, As we announced in [LAST-BITS], we would like to get a better idea of that status of the ports, to make an informed decision about which port can be released with jessie. One of the steps is to get an