Have you considered trying one of the pre-made VMWare 'appliances' which
has things already set up? Here's a 115MB download for Debian 3.1
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/13
which takes you to here:
http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/#debian3.1
with a bunch of other Debian variants that are preconfigured as virtual
machines.
CB
Scott Howell wrote:
Hi Esther,
THanks for the reference, but there is part of the problem, I'm trying to
setup a Linux box and actually for some reason I'm having a hell of a time
making it happen under Fusion. So, the idea was to setup a bootable flash disk
I could use on my old Mini. I'd be curious if anyone has gotten Debian setup
under Fusion. I can't seem to get sound happening or so I have to assume since
all boots, but no words of joy issue forth.
tnx,
On Jan 11, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Scott,
I think if I were trying to set up a bootable Linux distribution on a USB flash drive I
would do this on a Linux machine. However, for your entertainment, you might want to
read Ted Landau's old MacFixIt column (from April 2008) titled, "Create a Leopard
Startup Flash Drive":
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080422095414936
Note that I haven't tried this myself, and have no idea whether it's doable for
Snow Leopard.
Cheers,
Esther
On Jan 11, 2010, at 06:57, Scott Howell wrote:
Hi Sandi,
Thanks for the clarification. If I unmount the drive, it no longer can be
referenced by the device node in /dev, which is interesting. It is as though
once unmounted, the OS forgets about it, but I suspect it has something to do
with the disk subsystem and how it handles devices. Well I'll keep digging
because the info is out there somewhere . :)
THanks,
On Jan 4, 2001, at 3:18 PM, sandi sørensen wrote:
first of all, have never used fdisk under osx so i can be very wrong.
but when i have done it on linux i usually unmount the drive i wanna fdisk and
then takes contact with it from the dev folder. Therefore i said as i did.
try eventually before you mess with it too see how huge it is with fdisk.
/sandi
On Jan 11, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Sandi,
Sorry, I'm not clear on what you are saying here. The device, /dev/disk1 does exist, but
unlike a "normal" or static /dev file system, I assume that perhaps this works
more like the DevFS found in some LInux distros? I have to admit that I am not that
familiar with the newer file systems, which is my fault for letting my knowledge get
rusty.
Can you please clarify what you mean?
THanks,
On Jan 4, 2001, at 1:41 PM, sandi sørensen wrote:
try getting a hold of it from /dev/
On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:17 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
James, I perhaps should be more clear.
The issue is I cannot find a way to address the device. To explain further, the
flash drive when mounted, shows up as /dev/disk1s1. However, to properly
address the device with fdisk, the device must be umounted, but when attempting
to address the device by
fdisk /dev/disk1 I receive a "file not found" error. So, my assumption is that
the disk subsystem handles unmounted devices differently than I gather most OpenBSD
systems perhaps. I of course do not know for sure and any thoughts you have would be
appreciated. The man page did not provide any information on how to address the problem.
THanks,
On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:24 AM, James & Nash wrote:
Hi Scott,
You wrote:
Have any of you used fdisk from the Terminal in order to set the boot flag
on a file system, which is contained on a USB flash drive/Thumb drive? I want
to creat a bootable usb stick that I can load a small Linux distro on.
I haven't, but I will look into it for you if you like. In theory, there should
be no problem using fdisk as the Terminal is pretty accessible with Voice Over.
TC
James
On 11 Jan 2010, at 02:01, Scott Howell wrote:
Folks,
Have any of you used fdisk from the Terminal in order to set the boot flag
on a file system, which is contained on a USB flash drive/Thumb drive? I want
to creat a bootable usb stick that I can load a small Linux distro on.
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