How to make mkofboot just generate ofboot.b without installing it anywhere?

2011-05-22 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to make mkofboot generate an ofboot.b based on a yaboot.conf and simply leave it in my ext3 filesystem, letting me decide where I want to put it. I have read the man page, and, so far as I can tell, mkofboot is determined to put ofboot.b on

Re: Adventures multi-booting late 2003 iBook G3 (was: What is this Apple Bootstrap thing of which the installer speaks?)

2011-05-21 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I actually found a horribly convoluted way of installing Debian without breaking Mac OS 9.2.2. However, my G3 does apparently have hardware support for large disks. I can partition the whole disk from Tiger and Mac OS 9.2.2 can still be installed and b

Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

2011-05-21 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/05/2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 21 May 2011 11:33:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> The install program seems to automatically rewrite UUIDs if you ask it >> to erase a partition. IMHO, the method for handling disk naming is still >> a work

Re: Adventures multi-booting late 2003 iBook G3 (was: What is this Apple Bootstrap thing of which the installer speaks?)

2011-05-19 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 18 May 2011 17:23:26 + annathemerm...@hush.com wrote: >On Thu, 05 May 2011 18:14:43 + Roger Leigh > wrote: >>> Now that Debian is up and running, is there documentation >>somewhere >>> explaining how to make yaboot offer options to boot

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2011-05-19 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19 May 2011 16:48, wrote: > From: annathemerm...@hush.com > Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 03:59:39 + >> The standard is PTSN. > > Don't you mean PSTN? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_switched_telephone_network Yes, forgive the dyslexia.

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2011-05-18 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Errr... why don't you just open a normal xterm and then type "su" at the prompt. It should ask you for the root password, which you can then type in, press enter, and viola! Terminal with root privileges. Alternatively, if su hasn't been set up, sudo

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-18 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11 May 2011 15:42, Jamie Thompson wrote: > On 2011-05-11 4:23 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:17 PM, jeremy jozwik wrote: >>> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Curt Howland wrote: So Skype has been bought by Microsof

Adventures multi-booting late 2003 iBook G3 (was: What is this Apple Bootstrap thing of which the installer speaks?)

2011-05-18 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 05 May 2011 18:14:43 + Roger Leigh wrote: >> Oh, and is there anyway to escape X11 into a nice console? > >Ctrl-Alt-Fn to switch to ttyn. Mysteriously, on powerpc at least, this only works if you do not select the "graphical desktop" set

Re: What is this Apple Bootstrap thing of which the installer speaks?

2011-05-05 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 03 May 2011 09:50:55 -0400 Roger Leigh wrote: >On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 09:00:50AM -0400, annathemerm...@hush.com >wrote: >> So, I was trying to install Debian on this old iBook, and >> apparently yaboot wants an Apple Bootstrap partition of a

What is this Apple Bootstrap thing of which the installer speaks?

2011-05-03 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! So, I was trying to install Debian on this old iBook, and apparently yaboot wants an Apple Bootstrap partition of a particular size. I don't see a way to create such a thing in the partitioner, and I would think it is something Mac OS X ought t