Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-15 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 12:34:49PM -0800, Nathan Vegdahl wrote: Greets, I have neglected to give this info in fear of being rejected, but I hope that somone will still help. I have a Macintosh computer... WAIT! DON'T STOP READING!!! I'm not an idiot trying to install Debian on a Mac,

Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmmm...What type of processor does the mac side have? Couldn't you install debian for m68k or linuxppc on it? Supposedly the m68k port of linux does not support macintoshes because Apple is being rather uninformative about the hardware specs. --

Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-15 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Hmmm...What type of processor does the mac side have? Couldn't you install debian for m68k or linuxppc on it? Supposedly the m68k port of linux does not support macintoshes because Apple is being rather uninformative about the hardware specs. There was an article about this in the linux

Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-15 Thread Dale E. Martin
Nathan Vegdahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that both of them share the same hard drive!!! The way they share it is by the MAC having over all power over the hard drive, and the PC uses allocations of the hard drive (called drive files) that appear as files on the MAC side

Fwd: Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-15 Thread Harrison, Shawn
Another approach would be to install a Mac version of Linux or NetBSD. If its a powerpc, use MkLinux, available through apple's website. If its a 68k mac, use NetBSD. See www.netbsd.org. There's a very helpful mailing list for this. All you have to do is repartition your hard drive and put the

Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-14 Thread Nathan Vegdahl
Greets, I have neglected to give this info in fear of being rejected, but I hope that somone will still help. I have a Macintosh computer... WAIT! DON'T STOP READING!!! I'm not an idiot trying to install Debian on a Mac, ok? So, my problem is that Debian won't install because it doesn't

Re: Problem with intallation on a wierd PC/MAC combo

1999-01-14 Thread Kent West
At 12:34 PM 1/14/1999 -0800, Nathan Vegdahl wrote: Greets, snip My computer is a wierd combination of a Mac and a PC. snip I am wondering if there is anyway to manually install Debian Linux, because it seems that is my only way out. If I could, I'd just buy a real PC computer, but