Hi Kevin As mentioned on my site, please send all questions and bug reports about the installer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't mail me in private mail about that. See below for my answer:
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:23:42AM -0400, Kevin C. Baird wrote: > I had a little problem with the Beta 4 installer, and thought you might > want to mention it in your guide. Currently a new release of debian-installer is in preparation. You might want to try the daily build from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current/ > > The ~1Mb boot partition for multi-booting needs to be HFS, not > Apple_Bootstrap, as might seem logical. It has to be both. Apple_Bootstrap is the partition type and HFS the filesystem. yaboot-installer should take care of creating a HFS Filesystem on your Apple_Bootstrap partition. > > The debian-installer does not offer formatting in HFS (at least my > version didn't). Can you please tell us, what exact error it gave you and where (in which stage of the installation) you saw this error. > > So I had to use a different distribution's install CD to format in HFS, > reboot with the Debian install CD, and proceed from there. I never had to do that. If this is still present in the latest daily build, it's definitely a bug. Gaudenz
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