Installing onto external FireWire drive.
Hello. I'm a new subscriber, so please kick me in the right direction
if my question has been answered before (I have done a good deal of
searching).
I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux onto an external FireWire drive,
using the files from debian-imac.sourceforge.net (woody 3.0r0).
I partitioned my external drive with a small HFS (non-extended) where I
put yaboot, root.bin, linux.bin, etc., leaving the rest of the drive
empty for Linux.
I managed to get Open Firmware to boot into yaboot, I started the
installer, and I get as far as the "partition a hard disk" step. The
problem is that the installer only recognizes my internal HD
(/dev/hda), and doesn't list the Firewire drive (even though it's
booting from it!). I've confirmed this with fdisk--it's definitely
listing the partition map of the internal drive.
Is there any way to get the installer to recognize the firewire drive?
(Do I need a different linux.bin and/or root.bin, and if so, where can
I get them?) Failing that, is there any way to install on that drive
manually?
This is my first Linux installation, though I do have experience with
Darwin, so I can understand some Unix-speak. :)
Thanks for any help you can give.
Zach
iMac DV SE, 400mHz G3
640MB RAM
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