On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 02:44:18PM +0200, Martin Breidung wrote: > hi all! > > i use debian-linux on pc for a long time, but i'm new with ppc... > > i've tried to install debian ppc 2.2r3 on a g4-400 pci. atapi-cdrom and ide-hdd are generic, the hdd's tested are 3,2gb fujitsu and 6,4gb ibm, both from pc. > the hdd's are initialized with mac-fdisk for apple-use in full length... > > rescue-image is booting correctly from cd, starting installation and all works well but partitioning. on 6,4gb ibm i've made partitions with mac-fdisk: > hda1: Apple_Partitiontable length 63 blocks > hda2: Apple_Bootstrap length 1600 blocks > hda3: swap length 524288 blocks (256MB) this must be type Apple_UNIX_SVR2 with name `swap' > hda4: native ext2 length 3GB this must be type Apple_UNIX_SVR2, names don't matter. if you use the `c' not `C' command for creating the linux ext2/swap partitions you wont have any problems with types being wrong. > hda5: Apple_HFS rest of blocks no point of this since MacOS will not be able to see it (no 3 dozen driver cruft partitions) > after returning to installation-program there are no swap or ext2 partition found to initialize nor after rebooting. under cfdisk there are no partitions found, partition-map is empty, but in mac-fdisk all created partitions are listed... but no initialisation under install... macs must use apple partition tables which cfdisk does not understand, you must use mac-fdisk. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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