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

Re: Re: Old world mac

2004-11-10 Thread Rick Thomas
Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6, if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that BootX even works with MacOS 7.5, if your machine can run it and you have a floppy drive to install it f

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 02:19 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Rikard Borg wrote: I'm one of those out there waiting with a 7200 box at home. Rikard Borg -- Hi Rikard, Did the work-around I sent you help any? Have you got that 7200 box working yet? Enjoy! Rick

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-17 Thread Bob Tanner
On Monday 16 August 2004 05:13 am, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Try the netboot/2.4 ones please. > > > > These work. Went through the installer and got the error message quik > > needs root to be ext2, would I like to go back. > > Cool. What version of d-i did you use ? i thought the quik installer was

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 06:41:57PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > On Friday 13 August 2004 01:23 am, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Put then into the Linux Kernel Folder, reboot the G3, selected vmlinux > > > from BootX, click no video driver, Options, use RAM Disk, selected > > > initrd.gz and clicked Li

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-13 Thread Bob Tanner
On Friday 13 August 2004 01:23 am, Sven Luther wrote: > > Put then into the Linux Kernel Folder, reboot the G3, selected vmlinux > > from BootX, click no video driver, Options, use RAM Disk, selected > > initrd.gz and clicked Linux. > > Try the netboot/2.4 ones please. These work. Went through th

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/08/04 20:04), Bob Tanner wrote: > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 11:43 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6, > > if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I > > don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:04:54PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 11:43 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6, > > if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I > > don't know what will run on it and what

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-12 Thread Bob Tanner
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 11:43 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: > Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6, > if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I > don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that BootX > even works with MacOS 7.5, if your mac

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:43:01AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6, > if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I > don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that BootX > even works with MacOS 7.5, if

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-10 Thread Rick Thomas
Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6, if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that BootX even works with MacOS 7.5, if your machine can run it and you have a floppy drive to install it f

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Rikard Borg wrote: > > Hi > > Rick Thomas Wrote: > > > > >Any one of these three bugs will render debian-installer unusable for > >anyone with anything but a "plain vanilla" hardware or networking > >environment who doesn't have help from a competant System > >Administrator, or have such skill