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Re: reinstalling MacOS without wiping a Debian setup (partition, boot)



On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 12:15:38AM -0700, A.J. Rossini wrote:
> 
> Is there any means of reinstalling MacOS without removing Debian?  (or
> reformating the whole disk?)   More importantly, is there any means of
> installing OS 9 without nuking my Debian setup?  I've currently got a
> dual-boot setup, OS X and Debian, on an iBook2.  
> 
> Attempting to reinstall either MacOS 9 or MacOS X seem to fail, the
> error given is that no disk/volume exists to do the install on.  Which
> makes no sense to me since I've got an HFS+ partition with OS X on
> it.  (well, I'm sure it does to the OS installer, sigh...).
> 
> Suggestions?  (other than to reinstall the whole computer, but I guess
> that may be the only solution)?

You can use "maconlinux" creating a file with "dd if=/dev/zero
of=/opt/macos9.bin bs=1M count=1024".

Then install the maconlinux using that file as the "file system" where
you want to install MacOS9.

I installed it without any major problem (well, the graphic driver of my
ATI Mobility M6 /ibook2 700MHz/ is not fully supported).

J

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