On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 12:28:26PM -0400, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > On Fri, 2007 Aug 31 00:46:11 -0400, Rod Ross wrote: > > > > > > ? Or would you have to use a Mac-compatible partitioner first, and write > > > the .iso to the first partition? > > > > > You my use the whole disk such as /dev/hdb. This would be the debian > > etch netinstall iso or business card iso. Doing this only "fakes" a > > cdrom device. I do not recommend booting from the same device and using > > a separate partition on that same device as the partition containing the > > debian netinstall or business card iso as the ramdisk boot installer. It > > might work since ybin or yaboot or quik are not installed. Not sure of > > command sequence for miboot boot loader but I would guess it would have > > problems . I have tried this "fake" cdrom on a Alpha with etch and it > > works. If you have a netinstall that you can boot than you are set you > > can just dd that to the boot disk drive and install to the other one. > > But if the image will not boot you might have problems. Use "dd > > if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb" to zero data on the disc if you experience > > problems with the disc you wrote to. > > I only have one disk, so it would be /dev/hda, and I would have to > install to the same disk that the machine boots from. Should this work? > As I understand, once everything is loaded, the system runs in RAM---so > the original HFS partition (with the content of the .iso) can be blown > away without a problem.
Hi Daniel, Not hdb1 or hdb2 but "hdb". The whole drive can be thought of as a CDROM drive. So yes, your boot drive will be the drive you are installing to. But you will need the adaptor I guess for the second "hdb" drive. If anything else works let me know. Cheers, Rod Ross ---AV & Spam Filtering by M+Guardian - Risk Free Email (TM)--- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users
