Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo
Greets,
I have neglected to give this info in fear of being rejected, but I
hope that somone will still help. I have a Macintosh computer... WAIT!
DON'T STOP READING!!! I'm not an idiot trying to install Debian on a
Mac, ok? So, my problem is that Debian won't install because it doesn't
know I have a hard drive, and from it's point of view I don't.
I believe the reason it can't find my hard drive is because it is
looking through the computer hardware. My computer is a wierd
combination of a Mac and a PC.
The way it works is that it boots up with the Mac, and then you can
switch "sides" on the computer (side 1: MAC side 2: PC). When you
switch sides the computer switches which side of the computer has access
to: the mouse, the monitor, the keyboard, the disk drive, and the CD ROM
drive.
The problem is that both of them share the same hard drive!!! The
way they share it is by the MAC having over all power over the hard
drive, and the PC uses allocations of the hard drive (called drive
files) that appear as files on the MAC side so that the Mac side won't
mess with the stuff on that PC "hard drive". The PC accesses that
allocation through some loaded TSR program (I think). So when the Linux
installation program starts (which loads a Kernal) it wipes out that TSR
and hence it can't find the hard drive. The PC side thinks that it's
allocation of the hard drive is all the hard drive there is, so it can't
access things out side of it. I am wondering if there is anyway to
manually install Debian Linux, because it seems that is my only way out.
If I could, I'd just buy a real PC computer, but presently I don't
have the budget to do so.
Thanks!
--Nathan Vegdahl
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