On 2/26/2017 3:57 PM, Ant wrote:
> I finally found free time to play this with since I am currently
> unemployed. I ran into an issue with my favorite distribution, Debian. I
> downloaded and burned its debian-8.7.1-powerpc-netinst (going to use a
> network cable) onto an old 650 MB CD-RW. It booted up fine until
> something about firmware (skipped it for now) the disk management part.
> I could not find a way to make it small/big enough for a dual boot set
> up since I wanted to keep my Mac OS X v10.2.8 (also has Classic 9 in it)
> intact just in case. It is in the 60 GB HDD (actually 55.88 GB with
> about 26 GB free according to Mac OS X v10.2.8). I told it to try 20 and
> 10 GB sizes, but no go (too small, huh?). What's the smallest size I can
> use?
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch03s04.html.en says
> I need a minimum of 10 GB, but I tried that.
I manage to get going, but still having problems with its disk partition
to install: It got stuck at 52% for a few hours overnight at "Starting
up the partitioner -- Please wait" text screen. First noticed it before
7 AM PST after waking up, and it is now 9:56 AM PST. I am scared to
reboot. MBP's keyboard feels warm in its top area. I assume it is doing
something? I wished Macs had HDD lights like PCs. Also, I hope my
network disconnection didn't caused this.
A friend told me to press fn+alt+f4 to see its console. I took a couple
iPhone 4S pictures of it being stuck:
https://i.imgbox.com/GwEIUWjX.jpg
and
https://i.imgbox.com/POvMqh3M.jpg ... The eth0 line was caused by my
manual network cable disconnection. It looked like a process ran out of
memory (PB only has 512 MB of RAM). Anyways, he told me just reboot. I
was prepared for the worst -- a hosed HDD. In fact, it was OK! It wasn't
even resized!! What the heck?
I am going to take a break since I got other things to do for now. Also,
this bootable Debian text installer needs to blank the screen black
after idling for a while.
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ants eat the fish." --Thai Proverb