On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:44:14PM +0000, David Pead wrote: > What a right royal pain in the butt for the last few months trying to get > this running, success at last! > Many thanks to all for recent advice and that buried away in the archives. > For any other unfortunate soul who's just starting out with an beige g3 > oldworld install, my experience follows: > > Small OS9 partition. BootX with relevant files (ie root.img and vmlinux) > 2nd large partiton, I allowed partion guider to set it up for me. > > At the partioner make a note of which partition macos uses. Something like > #6 > > Ignore messages regards quik at end of d-i set-up, ctrl-alt-f2 to CLI > > This thread I found useful but incomplete, you need to chroot not cd to the > directory: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/10/msg00628.html > I found that there was no module available straight from the installer to > mount the os9 partition. From the above post and others I then > > # chroot target I would like to know if this is the best way to do it, before I send any suggestions to the installation manual. Obviously, without the croot it won't work to use /boot/vmlinux-2.6.12-1-powerpc but you would have to use /target/boot/vmlinux-2.6.12-1-powerpc. But would chroot somehow help to get the MacOS partition mounted or not? Is /dev/hda6 specific for the installed system while inside the installer one have to use /dev/discs/dics0/part6? -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> GnuPG key: 1024D/7050614E Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E Learn about secure email at http://www.gnupg.org
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