Installation worked! Now, the modem, though...

2002-01-19 Thread Sunnanvind
Chris: Thanks a mil for pointing me to people.debian.org/~/walters/debian/installer/new-powermac/ - it worked like a charm. The issue was probably the kernel all along. I now have a working single-boot debian installation and don't have to deal with mac-quirkiness (I was referring to Mac OS wh

Re: The broken fdisk

2002-01-13 Thread Sunnanvind Fenderson
#x27;m like *the* lamest newbie when it comes to networking. Ever thankful, Sunnanvind

Re: The broken fdisk

2002-01-13 Thread Sunnanvind Fenderson
On Sunday, January 13, 2002, at 04:43 PM, Michael Schmitz wrote: Then I got a blinking cursor for a long while, and after that the computer restarted itself. It shouldn't do that, obviously. What Mac model was this on? Kernel version? I've had reports of mac-fdisk crashing the machine on writi

Re: The broken fdisk

2002-01-13 Thread Sunnanvind Fenderson
rwise worked fine. tim... On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:24:53PM +0100, Sunnanvind Fenderson wrote: Chris Tillman wrote: The current build somehow has a broken-build mac-fdisk. There is a binary package available on the web at http://penguinppc.org/projects/eb/mac-fdisk.tar.gz Great! But how do I

The broken fdisk

2002-01-09 Thread Sunnanvind Fenderson
Chris Tillman wrote: The current build somehow has a broken-build mac-fdisk. There is a binary package available on the web at http://penguinppc.org/projects/eb/mac-fdisk.tar.gz Great! But how do I access it from the installation? (I tried mounting my mac hd under /target, but it's formated i

fdisk quits weirdly

2002-01-06 Thread Sunnanvind Fenderson
Hi. Following the installation guide at http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html and choosing "debian only", some weird prompt tells me my bootstrap partition should be of type Apple_bootstrap but it then boots into the installer anyway. After configuring the keyboard (but "dvorak" wasn't