On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 11:47:45AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > Repartitioned the drive with Apple's tool to have a small partition up > front for the boot gymnastics, an HFS+ partition for OS9, and a bunch > (20 MB) of unallocated space to put other toys in (OS X, Linux). actually you want a large HFS partition at the start that will reserve all the space you want for debian, this partition you delete with mac-fdisk. drive setup creates the wrong type of partition unsuitable for bootstrap since macos will ruin it. and i think 20MB is not enough space for OSX or GNU/Linux ;-) so add up the space you want for debian, create the first HFS partition using that number, then create your macos partition and anything else. then in mac-fdisk delete that first HFS partition and create the 800K Apple_Bootstrap and the rest of your ext2 partitions. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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