How to make mkofboot just generate ofboot.b without installing it anywhere?

2011-05-22 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to make mkofboot generate an ofboot.b based on a yaboot.conf and simply leave it in my ext3 filesystem, letting me decide where I want to put it. I have read the man page, and, so far as I can tell, mkofboot is determined to put ofboot.b

Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

2011-05-21 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/05/2011, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 21 May 2011 11:33:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: The install program seems to automatically rewrite UUIDs if you ask it to erase a partition. IMHO, the method for handling disk naming is

Re: Adventures multi-booting late 2003 iBook G3 (was: What is this Apple Bootstrap thing of which the installer speaks?)

2011-05-21 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I actually found a horribly convoluted way of installing Debian without breaking Mac OS 9.2.2. However, my G3 does apparently have hardware support for large disks. I can partition the whole disk from Tiger and Mac OS 9.2.2 can still be installed and

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2011-05-19 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19 May 2011 16:48, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: annathemerm...@hush.com Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 03:59:39 + The standard is PTSN. Don't you mean PSTN? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_switched_telephone_network Yes, forgive the

Re: Adventures multi-booting late 2003 iBook G3 (was: What is this Apple Bootstrap thing of which the installer speaks?)

2011-05-19 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 18 May 2011 17:23:26 + annathemerm...@hush.com wrote: On Thu, 05 May 2011 18:14:43 + Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: Now that Debian is up and running, is there documentation somewhere explaining how to make yaboot offer

Adventures multi-booting late 2003 iBook G3 (was: What is this Apple Bootstrap thing of which the installer speaks?)

2011-05-18 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 05 May 2011 18:14:43 + Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: Oh, and is there anyway to escape X11 into a nice console? Ctrl-Alt-Fn to switch to ttyn. Mysteriously, on powerpc at least, this only works if you do not select the

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-18 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11 May 2011 15:42, Jamie Thompson debian-user@jamie- thompson.co.uk wrote: On 2011-05-11 4:23 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:17 PM, jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Curt

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2011-05-18 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Errr... why don't you just open a normal xterm and then type su at the prompt. It should ask you for the root password, which you can then type in, press enter, and viola! Terminal with root privileges. Alternatively, if su hasn't been set up, sudo

Re: What is this Apple Bootstrap thing of which the installer speaks?

2011-05-05 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 03 May 2011 09:50:55 -0400 Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 09:00:50AM -0400, annathemerm...@hush.com wrote: So, I was trying to install Debian on this old iBook, and apparently yaboot wants an Apple Bootstrap

What is this Apple Bootstrap thing of which the installer speaks?

2011-05-03 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! So, I was trying to install Debian on this old iBook, and apparently yaboot wants an Apple Bootstrap partition of a particular size. I don't see a way to create such a thing in the partitioner, and I would think it is something Mac OS X ought