Re: Newbie trying to install Debian PPC into an old 15" PowerBook G4...
On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 03:35:35PM -0800, PhiLLip Pi wrote:
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> > Well supposedly gparted can shrink HFS/HFS+ partitions (but can't grow
> > them for some reason).
> >
> > So if you could find a livecd or something to boot from for powerpc and
> > use gparted you should be able to shrink it.
> >
> > I see finnix has a powerpc live cd which includes parted 3.2, but I
> > can't see gparted there. It is however debian based so it might be
> > possible to apt-get install gparted after booting.
>
> I'll give https://www.finnix.org/releases/111/finnix-ppc-111.iso a shot.
> I hope that is bootable as a live disc. :)
So, I booted up a burned Finnix liveCD, but it doesn't have X so it is
all text based. I had a hard time getting its network features working
with a physical network cable (dmesg detected its manual connection)
until I learned about its sudo dhcpclient command. Apparently, it
doesn't get the IP address automatically. :(
I ran its parted and saw http://pastebin.com/raw/JP2pqXds ... Disk
managements and command lines aren't my strong areas. GUI helps a lot in
this area. Do I use "resizepart 5" command?
Thank you in advance. :)
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