I meant iBook in this message not Powerbook. It's an iBook G3 700 MHz that I've got.
Ananda On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:11:57 +0000 Ananda Samaddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used the image I got from here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUI > > I think the link for the PPC images are for a daily build so yes I must have > used one of those. I did have Ubuntu on there, but via the alternate CD. > When I found out they were dropping PPC I decided to put Debian on there I > switched from Debian to Ubuntu on my desktop - might go back to Debian on > there as well now it's on the Powerbook. > > I have got Mac OSX and I'm getting a RAM upgrade to 640 MB this week so I > could probably do some testing. The ibook hasn't been used for anything > 'serious' yet so it can get wiped. > > I used the Mac OSX partitioner to do the current set up, I wanted to make > sure that OSX could see the partitions properly. > > Ananda > > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:56:50 +1100 > Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Tuesday 23 January 2007 10:13, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > > Must have been something with the buggy graphical installer or my messing > > > with the partitions. I used OSX partitioning tool to partition the HDD > > > (it's piece of crap by the way) and everything is working dual-boot wise > > > now. > > > > > > Feel like a bit of a moron now! > > > > Na :) Mistakes are for learning, they're good :) Thanks for sharing your > > experiences! > > > > In my experience with 96mb ram, the partitioning tool of the graphical > > installer also behaved badly, thats why we made it switch to the text based > > installer if there are less than 128mb of ram available. But this doesn't > > seem to be enough - probably only if there are macosx partitions - which I > > cannot test :-/ (i suspect it needs to do more calculations and these > > calculation process is quite inefficient...) > > > > Does someone has a.) maxosx installed b.) more than 128mb (it's possible to > > tell the system to use less, if you have half a gig or something) and c.) > > is > > willing to do a test-install which might destroy the installation..? Uhh. > > > > Also it needs to be tested with our partitioning tool :) > > > > And the test should be done with the daily-build of the installer - which > > one > > did you use exactly? daily? rc1? ubuntu? > > > > > > regards, > > Holger > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
