On Wed, Jan 22, 2014, at 09:35 PM, Risto Suominen wrote: > 2014/1/22, Geoff Down <[email protected]>: > > > > That means I could really do with a way of transferring log files etc > > between the Linux drive and the OSX drive. OSX can't access the Linix > > filesystem apparently - can I make Linux access the OSX disk? > > > I wouldn't recommend trying that. In worst case you could make your OS > X unbootable. Linux can read HFS, but writing seems to be too risky, > at least if journaling is enabled. From the Debian PPC Install Manual: 'To share information between the Mac OS X and GNU/Linux systems, an exchange partition is handy. HFS, HFS+ and MS-DOS FAT file systems are supported by MacOS 9, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. ' I wouldn't have embarked on the project at all if I thought that I couldn't transfer files between the two :( > > > By ' apt-get install xorg' ? It did install (it asked for the CD to be > > reinserted - not over the network?) but startx resulted in 'no screens > > found' - I have to run a config tool according to the x.org wiki? > > Complications upon complications. > > > I think X.org nowadays runs fine - in most cases - with default > config. Take a look at the log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
I did - but I don't know what I should be looking for apart from http://www.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages/#index8h2 GD -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
