On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:49:07PM +0100, Otto wrote: > hi, > > I'm trying to install potato on my pismo. I have MacOS 9.04, MacOS X PB and > LinuxPPC running, so I figured I could convert a spare HFS partition to ext2 > and have debian and LinuxPPC share the existing swap partition. > > So I booted into the installer from CD, but for some reason, debian won't > let me use the existing swap partition. whenever I choose "initialize and > activate swap partition" or "activate previously installed swap partition", > the installer complains "no swap partitions that had not already been > mounted were detected". linuxppc tends to create bogus partition tables. the swap partition needs to be type: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 name: swap > I decided to select "do without a swap partition" and fix that later. > > then I tried to set up that spare partition to install on, so I chose > "partition disk" from the menu and used that command line tool to delete my > spare HFS partition and create a new one of type ext2 in its place. seemed > to work fine, too, but still, "Initialize linux partition" gives me the same > error as above. > > under "show partition map", everything looks ok, though my new partition is > said to be "not available" (just like those LinuxPPC partitions). sounds like linuxppc's partition table is corrupt. > just out of couriosity, I opened a shell, and the welcome message said that > disks would be mounted under /target. well, not in my case. ls /target > showed that /target is empty. !? see your error above, you have not yet mounted anything. > after installing LinuxPPC few months ago, I really thought I could handle to > install debian on my own.. oh well. its easier when your not trying to install over a broken setup like what linuxppc creates. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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