Re: Moving the kernel between a debian partition and a mac partition

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 06:25:23PM +0100, Marc Coevoet wrote:
> 
> Op 6-nov-05 om 17:21 heeft Sven Luther het volgende geschreven:
> 
> >On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 09:45:06AM -0600, Rex Fernando wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I installed debian onto a Beige G3, and now I need to move the kernel
> >>and the ramdisk between the debian partition and the mac partition so
> >>I can use it with BootX. Does anyone know how to do this?
> >
> >Mount the mac partition :
> >
> >  mount -t hfs /dev/hdaX /mnt
> >  cp /boot/vmlinux-2.6.12-1-powerpc /mnt
> >  cp /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-1-powerpc /mnt
> >  umount /mnt
> >
> 
> Because I also have a YDL on my G3/266 I tried such a thing
> from within YDL, to save my debian kernel on the Mac os HD.
> But ... in YDL hfs (or hfs+) is not supported ...
> 
> And synaptic...rpm is not in the 3.0.1 YDL ...  not very funny..

Well, whatever, it works fine in debian, and probably in YDL too, but you need
to specify -t hfs or -t hfsplus.

Now, YDL 3.0.1 is older than even woody if i remember well, they released 4.0
last year.

Friendly,

Sven Luther