On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:13:22AM -0400, William Brennan wrote: > Folks, > > I've been struggling for the past several weeks trying to install Debian > on my new Quicksilver Mac. Finally, today I was able to get to the > installation screen. But there is a problem... > > The default screen used is primitive, with a super-large-font, and of > limited dimension (80chars x 25 lines?). Must be VGA mode. > > I'm trying to use mac-fdisk within this installation script to > re-partition my drive. (If there's a way to do the repartitioning > outside of this installation, that would be fine, too.) But since there > are already about 14 partitions supplied by the MacOSes, when I try to > view the existing partitions (via the mac-fdisk 'p' command), the first > 5 partitions very quickly scroll off the top of the screen. I want to
I hope Michel's advice works. If not, you should be able to use Shift-PgUp to see the lines that just scrolled off the top. With some video drivers, they get corrupted; but Shift-PgDown Shift-PgUp usually seems to clear it up. Another point is that you don't need to actually delete any partitions to get them in the right order. After you've used b to create the bootstrap partition, just use the r command to reorder it to 2. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
