Can't view partitions - Installation screen too small
Folks,
I've been struggling for the past several weeks trying to install Debian
on my new Quicksilver Mac. Finally, today I was able to get to the
installation screen. But there is a problem...
The default screen used is primitive, with a super-large-font, and of
limited dimension (80chars x 25 lines?). Must be VGA mode.
I'm trying to use mac-fdisk within this installation script to
re-partition my drive. (If there's a way to do the repartitioning
outside of this installation, that would be fine, too.) But since there
are already about 14 partitions supplied by the MacOSes, when I try to
view the existing partitions (via the mac-fdisk 'p' command), the first
5 partitions very quickly scroll off the top of the screen. I want to
create an 800kb Apple Bootstrap early in the partition list, as directed
by the Debian installation manual, but am very reluctant to play with
partitions where I can't even see them!
Ideally, could someone direct me how to get more characters on my screen
for installation, so I can view my partition map? (I've got an ATI
Radeon 7500 card) Or suggest another way to do the partitioning outside
of the Linux installation.
(I tried pdisk running under MacOSX, but I couldn't figure out the name
of my disk device: /dev/hda didn't work, even though it works for the
Linux installer.)
Any help would be appreciated. I want my Debian!
-- Bill
brennan@netaxs.com
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