Re: Installing onto a powerbook for the first time
Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:53:15PM +0100, Hani Jabr wrote:
> > Dudes,
> >
> > I started installing Debian onto a powerbook (or any PowerPC hardware
> > for that matter) for the first time. When I originally set the system
> > up I predicted that Linux may be on the cards at a later stage and I
> > split the hard disk into 2, and left roughly half the disk unused. I
> > started the install and immediately ran into the problem of trying to
> > get it to boot given I was trying to preserve the Mac OS 9 and X
> > partitions. So now I'm stuck. Is there any way out without trashing
> > the existing partition or throwing hardware at it?
>
> You haven't given us enough details to be able to help. The system
> is designed to accommodate your situation, so just saying you're stuck
> gives us nothing to go on. Have you read the manual in my .sig? What
> version are you installing? Yada, yada.
>
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I'm sorry. The distribution I am installing is the latest (potato?), and the
problem I am having with getting it to boot is that I didn't create an 800K
'Apple_Bootstrap' partition. The documentation I read says to create it before
the first Mac OS partition. This is for Yaboot. Is there an alternative that
the documentation does not describe? Is there another way?
Hani
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