Re: Question on installing Debian ppc on iBook with small HD
Hi Fritz!
Apologies for the late reply!
On Mon, 2023-06-26 at 08:57 -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> So, I got into the Net installer on an '04 iBook with 40GB HD, I have approx 11 GB
> set for what is right now Lubuntu 16.04, which is booting from Yaboot in the HFS
> partition sda2, but that partition showed as 10MB, using 323KB for OSX and yaboot.
> When I was using the custom installer and went to that partition there was no option
> for "/boot" of any kind??
Old installation images which installed Yaboot as a bootloader used a different way
to create an HFS partition. This partition was not mounted by default in Linux since
Yaboot normally didn't have to write any files ot the HFS partition after installation
unlike GRUB.
> I thought that was because the partition is too small for grub?? which these days
> seems to need more space?? Like 200 MB or more?
We're using default sizes of 128/256/512 MB depending on the disk size these days:
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/partman-auto/-/blob/master/recipes-powerpc-powermac_newworld/atomic
> Or, can I get the installer to use that HFS partition and finish out the install using it?
It's most likely too small.
> OR, do I need to carve out another HFS formatted partition from the 10.4 GB of space in
> which I now have / and /home together, AND then run the installer? And, then, what would
> be the minimum space needed for grub to work?
I would recommend a fresh installation and let the partioning tool handling the partition
sizes.
Adrian
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