Re: Newbie installation questions

2014-01-22 Thread Geoff Down
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014, at 09:35 PM, Risto Suominen wrote: > 2014/1/22, Geoff Down : > > > > That means I could really do with a way of transferring log files etc > > between the Linux drive and the OSX drive. OSX can't access the Linix > > filesystem apparently - can I make Linux access the OSX dis

Re: Newbie installation questions

2014-01-22 Thread Risto Suominen
2014/1/22, Geoff Down : > > That means I could really do with a way of transferring log files etc > between the Linux drive and the OSX drive. OSX can't access the Linix > filesystem apparently - can I make Linux access the OSX disk? > I wouldn't recommend trying that. In worst case you could make

Re: Newbie installation questions

2014-01-22 Thread Geoff Down
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014, at 04:51 PM, Risto Suominen wrote: ... > I would first install openssh-server, to allow you to log in remotely, > in case you loose the control via the terminal, as often happens in > these cases. I only have the one working computer unfortunately. That means I could really

Re: Newbie installation questions

2014-01-22 Thread Risto Suominen
2014/1/22, Geoff Down : > > I can now boot into the command line and login. > Is there any way to install Gnome now in a way that allows me to debug > any problems - starting it from the command line and being able to > escape back into a shell perhaps? > I would first install openssh-server, to al

Re: Newbie installation questions

2014-01-22 Thread Geoff Down
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014, at 07:26 AM, Risto Suominen wrote: > Hi Geoff, > > The partitions are fine. > > The first prompt if ofboot (Open Firmware), where you can choose > between partitions: Linux and OS X. The second one is yaboot, where > you can type 'Linux 1' to get into single user mode prom