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

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

2011-05-20 Thread Joel Rees
I blogged about this a couple of years back. (Fedora, rather than Debian.) You may have discovered this all the hard way by now, but I'll post the link anyway: http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-on-old-clamshell-ibook.html I think the only thing the blog really adds is that you can

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: 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

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

2011-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:41 PM, annathemerm...@hush.com wrote: Also, is there any way to make Debian read OpenBSD's disklabel? Debian seem to just see one big OpenBSD partition and none of the subpartitions. Does that mean any partitions I want to share, e.g. swap, have to be partitioned

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

2011-05-05 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 12:41:24PM -0400, annathemerm...@hush.com wrote: -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

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

2011-05-04 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:00 PM, annathemerm...@hush.com wrote: -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

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

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

2011-05-03 Thread Roger Leigh
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 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