On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Gary wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Just to be absolutely clear, the "NewWorld bootblock" partition I
am talking
about, and I assume Gary is talking about, is the /dev/hda2
partition in the
following display, with type "Apple_Bootstrap". This is quite
distinct from
the "/boot" directory in your root partition.
...
It's formatted HFS (*not* HFS-plus) even on NewWorld machines,
...
Which easily fits into 800KB.
That's correct. But the installer would not pass without my manually
changing its size to 800Mb so there's a typo somewhere when it checks
it size, tell me it's not large enough, and forces me to enlarge it
from the command line with mac-fdisk. This was with the July 1st
weekly testing build but I haven't tried it again since...
-Gary
Hmmm... If this continues with the most recent installer, it's a bug
and you should report it. For want of a better place, I'd report it
against the debian-installer package, though if you can track it
down to a particular part of the installer (partitioner?) you may
get better response.
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
always has the absolute latest installer ISOs.
Well, I just completed an installation on a G4 PowerMac from the
PowerPC "businesscard" iso downloaded at the above address.
I used manual disk partitioning -- used existing available partitions
for root and swap, and the existing /dev/hda2 (1.0 MB in size) for
the NewWorld bootblock partition. There was no complaint about the
size of the bootblock partition.
One thing I did *not* do was tell it "use the whole disk and partition
it automatically" -- I'd have to replace the hda disk with a spare to
try that and I don't have time for such experiments just now. If
anybody else has a chance, and time to try it, I'd love to hear your
experience.
Rick
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