Re: Newbie installation questions

2014-01-23 Thread Geoff Down
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014, at 08:07 AM, Risto Suominen wrote: > It's not that bad. One direction will always work. Actually I think > that you can mount the HFS+ partition, and if journaling is used, it > will be mounted (effectually) read only. In that case you could create > another partition witho

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 -

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 Geoff Down
om the command line and being able to escape back into a shell perhaps? > > 2014/1/21, Geoff Down : > > PS I also get 'Disk unreadable' errors in OSX since it can't see disk0's > > filesystem - but that's a minor irritation (will an /etc/fstab entry

Re: Newbie installation questions

2014-01-21 Thread Geoff Down
on you can > > select the drive you want to install to, and make sure the Apple_bootstrap > > [bootable flag on, /mac partition] is there, also > > > > ? > > > > JB > > > > On Friday 17 January 2014 01:57:54 Geoff Down wrote: > > > Hello all, >

Newbie installation questions

2014-01-16 Thread Geoff Down
all at the partitioning stage as I assumed that the ISO image would in fact be destroyed in the partitioning process, leaving the installation hanging. b) Was I right? Or can you install from an image on the same hd? Thanks for your time, Geoff Down -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but differ