New iBook
Marco Guidetti
i am new to the list and i just received my new iBook. :)
I am looking to install debian on it, but i'd like to repartition the
Hard Disk having to delete old partitions, and without having to
reinstall MacOS X.
There are some free/open tools to do that?
thanks in advance,
marco
victor piscue
> Hey all,
> i am new to the list and i just received my new iBook. :)
Hi, enjoy it!
> I am looking to install debian on it, but i'd like to repartition the
> Hard Disk having to delete old partitions, and without having to
> reinstall MacOS X.
> There are some free/open tools to do that?
Yup,
First you have to disable journal from your hfs+ partition. You can do
it with Disk Utility on your Mac OS X. Search on google about it.
Then you can start installation with debian installer and when you're on
stage to setup your hard disk, go to console and use parted to modify
your partitions as you like.
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Jack Malmostoso
> Then you can start installation with debian installer and when you're on
> stage to setup your hard disk, go to console and use parted to modify
> your partitions as you like.
When you're done remember to reenable journal on the HFS partiton :)
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victor piscue
> When you're done remember to reenable journal on the HFS partiton :)
You can leave it disabled no?
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Marco Guidetti
thank for the great info.
now i am googling a bit about the "disable journal" issue.
i guess a simple
$ sudo diskutil disableJournal /
wouldn't do eh? :)
TIA,
marco
PS
Sorry Victor if i reply in private, but i didn't notice hitting reply
didn't answer on the ml.
Jack Malmostoso
> You can leave it disabled no?
I cannot see why, since linux can R/W partitions with HFS+. It is
definitely better for your OSX installation health :)
Marco Guidetti
ok i managed to disable the journaling.
now i have downloaded the debian-31r0a-powerpc-netinst.iso and i am
about to burn it.
then, i will boot from the cd, and when the debian installer starts, i
will switch to a new tty (i wonder, how? shall i use ctrl-alt-fN?) and
i use parted to resize the hfs partition on /dev/hda.
( i guess i will know which one is the one to resize having a look
with mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda ? )
(is all of the above right?)
i read from the parted docs that the resize command's sintax is something like:
resize minornumber start end
now i wonder,
since the partition already exists, and i know (i read somewhere) that
the debian partition must be the first on the disk), i will only
change the START point of the partition so to make place "before" the
apple partition?
and if yes, the old hfs partition will start off at the point where
the new debian partition ends? will parted move all my datas there?
sorry for my questions,
(i am a newbie with debian on mac, never tried this before)
thanks in advance,
marco
victor piscue
> heya folks,
Hi Marco
> ok i managed to disable the journaling.
ok.
> now i have downloaded the debian-31r0a-powerpc-netinst.iso and i am
> about to burn it.
ok.
> then, i will boot from the cd, and when the debian installer starts, i
> will switch to a new tty (i wonder, how? shall i use ctrl-alt-fN?) and
> i use parted to resize the hfs partition on /dev/hda.
> ( i guess i will know which one is the one to resize having a look
> with mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda ? )
>
> (is all of the above right?)
seems right.
> i read from the parted docs that the resize command's sintax is something like:
>
> resize minornumber start end
Yup, I can't remember how was syntax... but was easy and this seems
easy.
> now i wonder,
> since the partition already exists, and i know (i read somewhere) that
> the debian partition must be the first on the disk), i will only
> change the START point of the partition so to make place "before" the
> apple partition?
why must be the first? I guess mine was last partition...
> and if yes, the old hfs partition will start off at the point where
> the new debian partition ends? will parted move all my datas there?
My resize was only do smaller the last one...
Marco Guidetti
> > now i wonder,
> > since the partition already exists, and i know (i read somewhere) that
> > the debian partition must be the first on the disk), i will only
> > change the START point of the partition so to make place "before" the
> > apple partition?
>
> why must be the first? I guess mine was last partition...
i guess i took as good an old doc somewhere.
ok, if it can be whatever partition, let's go ;)
> > and if yes, the old hfs partition will start off at the point where
> > the new debian partition ends? will parted move all my datas there?
>
> My resize was only do smaller the last one...
k,
thanks!
marco
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:20:15 +0200, victor piscue wrote:
>
> > You can leave it disabled no?
>
> I cannot see why, since linux can R/W partitions with HFS+. It is
> definitely better for your OSX installation health :)
You should not access a journaled partition with an unclean journal
using Linux HFS+ filesystem since it doesn't do journaling. It won't be
able to replay your journal at all and thus going back to MacOS might
cause "interesting" thing with an out-of-sync journal file.
Ben.
Colin Watson
> now i have downloaded the debian-31r0a-powerpc-netinst.iso and i am
> about to burn it.
> then, i will boot from the cd, and when the debian installer starts, i
> will switch to a new tty (i wonder, how? shall i use ctrl-alt-fN?) and
> i use parted to resize the hfs partition on /dev/hda.
Just use the built-in resizing support in the installer. Press Enter on
the partition you want to resize, find the Size: field, press Enter
again, and enter the new size.
Cheers,
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