Fwd: Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-15 Thread Harrison, Shawn
Another approach would be to install a Mac version of Linux or NetBSD. If its a powerpc, use MkLinux, available through apple's website. If its a 68k mac, use NetBSD. See www.netbsd.org. There's a very helpful mailing list for this. All you have to do is repartition your hard drive and put the

Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-15 Thread Dale E. Martin
"Nathan Vegdahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >The problem is that both of them share the same hard drive!!! The > way they share it is by the MAC having over all power over the hard > drive, and the PC uses allocations of the hard drive (called drive > files) that appear as files on the MA

Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-15 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>> Hmmm...What type of processor does the mac side >have? Couldn't you >> install debian for m68k or linuxppc on it? >Supposedly the m68k port of linux does not support >macintoshes because >Apple is being rather uninformative about the hardware >specs. There was an article about this in the lin

Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm...What type of processor does the mac side have? Couldn't you > install debian for m68k or linuxppc on it? Supposedly the m68k port of linux does not support macintoshes because Apple is being rather uninformative about the hardware specs. -- Hen

Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-15 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 12:34:49PM -0800, Nathan Vegdahl wrote: > Greets, >I have neglected to give this info in fear of being rejected, but I > hope that somone will still help. I have a Macintosh computer... WAIT! > DON'T STOP READING!!! I'm not an idiot trying to install Debian on a > M

Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-14 Thread Kent West
At 12:34 PM 1/14/1999 -0800, Nathan Vegdahl wrote: >Greets, >My computer is a wierd combination of a Mac and a PC. >I am wondering if there is anyway to >manually install Debian Linux, because it seems that is my only way out. > If I could, I'd just buy a real PC computer, but presently I

Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-14 Thread Nathan Vegdahl
Greets, I have neglected to give this info in fear of being rejected, but I hope that somone will still help. I have a Macintosh computer... WAIT! DON'T STOP READING!!! I'm not an idiot trying to install Debian on a Mac, ok? So, my problem is that Debian won't install because it doesn't k