Re: will PPC installer work with DOS partition tables

1999-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On 23/10/99 Jeramy B Smith wrote: I'm not under the opinion that all software should be free, BUT I was also dismayed that I needed a MacOS partition to boot my beige g3 desktop. partly its non free, mostly because its a big waste of space for a useless OS I have no interest in using. beside

Re: will PPC installer work with DOS partition tables

1999-10-23 Thread Jeramy B Smith
> The reason I ask is it looks as if the newer macs OF is broken in > such a way that it will require a partition dedicated to holding the > boot loader (if you want to get rid of non-Free macos) I'm not under the opinion that all software should be free, BUT I was also dismayed that I needed a M

Re: will PPC installer work with DOS partition tables

1999-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On 22/10/99 Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: To do so actually would be trivial. And I like that idea. Millions of idiots have 540M dos disks or something lying around, DOS is pretty widely accepted unfortunately, and ext2's one of those oddball filesystems like XFS only ext2 sucks more. (I WANT EXT3 NO

Re: will PPC installer work with DOS partition tables

1999-10-23 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
Ethan Benson wrote: > > Hello, > > Does the Debian PPC installer work OK with DOS partition tables? as > in the same partition tables we use on intel machines? > > The reason I ask is it looks as if the newer macs OF is broken in > such a way that it will require a partition dedicated to holdin

will PPC installer work with DOS partition tables

1999-10-23 Thread Ethan Benson
Hello, Does the Debian PPC installer work OK with DOS partition tables? as in the same partition tables we use on intel machines? The reason I ask is it looks as if the newer macs OF is broken in such a way that it will require a partition dedicated to holding the boot loader (if you want t