On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:54:38AM -0000, deeraeya deeraeya wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install potato on my Powerbook G3 pismo. > > Today I got some friends to burn the iso CDs but there seems to be a problem > with CD 1. CD 2 & 3 mount ok in MacOS (9.0.4) but MacOS tries to initialize > CD1. its probably hosed then > Thinking that the burn was a problem I looked at it on a linux box and it > mounts fine with everything that is meant to be there. > > I have booted into Open Firmware and tried: > boot cd:\\yaboot and > boot cd:,\\yaboot (not sure about the , but it shows up on some howtos) the latter is correct, but you should not need to boot yaboot manually ever on r3 CDs. > The first time I got "Bad Read" > then it seemed to read the disk and went black followed by a little MacOS > splash and then booted into MacOS. > Now when I try this I get "unknown word". CD1 is certainly corrupt. > Hmm. > > BTW I have not set up the partitions yet - if that is the problem then it > should correct itself. Maybe there was a problem with the burn and I'll do > it again - but it is strange that it all looks good from linux. partitions do not enter into this problem > Is there some secret to burning disk 1? don't let macos or windows modify it. its a special hfs/iso9660 hybrid. you must just simply burn the .iso to a CD without modifying it. either the .isos are corrupt (i doubt it, others have already used them sucessfully) or your mirror is corrupt, or your CD burning software is crap. i suspect the latter. > My other question is regarding partitioning. I am planning to run OS X as > well in the not too distant future so when I use the MacOS cd disk utility > to partition I'll be doing (6Gb HD) > > 2 GB for MacOS 9 (HFS+) you must put this AFTER the Debian placeholder. > 2 GB placeholder for Debian you must put this BEFORE all MacOS partitions. > 1.5 GB placeholder for MacOS X (Apple_UFS) > > I'm then expecting to boot debian from the CD and install into the 2 Gb - > putting in 100 MB exchange, 50Mb root, 125 mb swap and 1.5 mb for usr, var > etc. this will work, but you need to put the debian placeholder first, so that the 800K Apple_Bootstrap partition you must create will appear before all macos partitions, this will save you much hassle. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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