Aug 25, '03 08:51:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
- I downloaded from debian.org the following files:
- linux.bin
- yaboot
- yaboot.conf
- images-1.44/root.bin
- I booted to open firmware by holding Command-Option-O-F during boot. Once there, I booted the Debian install disk by typing boot hd:X,yaboot, where X was the partition number of Mac OS X - "9" for me).
- After linux's usual boot, I chose the language for the Debian installer, then selected "Partition hard disk" from the menu. Now you can delete partitions (choice D), create new Apple partition (C, and set the type to "Apple_HFS"), re-write the partition table (W), and quit (Q) Debian's pdisk.
- Stop the installation steps (before it's too late) by selecting "Reboot system" and confirm from menu.
- Hold Command-S to boot in single-user-mode, and run newfs_hfs -w -v MyNewVolume /dev/disk0sNN, where NN is the slice created with Debian's installer.
- Type reboot, and the volume will be back after login. Remember to remove the files copied to the root directory in the first step).
