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
2014/1/22, Geoff Down :
>
> From the Debian PPC Install Manual:
> 'To share information between the Mac OS X and GNU/Linux systems, an
> exchange partition is handy. HFS, HFS+ and MS-DOS FAT file systems are
> supported by MacOS 9, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. '
> I wouldn't have embarked on the proje
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
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
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
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
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
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 prompt.
Risto
2014/1/21, Geoff Down :
> PS I also get 'Disk unreadable' err
Hi JB,
Risto suggested the same thing - it worked, I was able to run the
installer all the way through.
I went for the default options on the whole, except I enabled Gnome.
When I try to boot into Linux now, I can do so at the boot: prompt
(though there seem to be two - the first seems to run the s
...and if it doesn't find the yaboot file, also point to the exact location of
the yaboot.conf for that cd
If i remember right, it is [path]yaboot.conf
e.g.
boot cd:, /install/yaboot.conf
On Tuesday 21 January 2014 15:00:24 gw [j] iza [b] superstar wrote:
> Hi Geoff,
> Maybe you thought of this
Hi Geoff,
Maybe you thought of this, but now that you have burned a cd anyway,
at the openfirmware prompt do like:
boot cd:, yaboot.conf
...then within Debian installer during the partitioning section you can select
the drive you want to install to, and make sure the Apple_bootstrap [bootable
Hello Geoff,
2014/1/17, Geoff Down :
> a) What am I doing wrong please?
To me it sounds right, but I'm no expert on hard disk installations.
> In a previous attempt I got the installer to see an ISO in a different
> partition *on the same hard disk* (disk0) as the installer. But I
> aborted that
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