The problem is i dont have any dvd's left so ive burnt the install onto a 5GB partition... but i cant get my machine to boot from that partition to do the install
ive tried bootx and a few other things, but the partition comes up with 'unknown file or filesystem'
i cant get help even on the recognised linux forums so im just hoping i get lucky here and someone can take pity on me and suggest something...
cheers,. steve
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the whole disk is macos extended, and its the only drive in there when i try it out...
I have got an older fed7 disk that i can boot from, and ive tried to getto that partition from there
ie: disk0s3 /volumes/install/PPC/PPC64/vmlinuz but i just get error after error (im taking it that its because its 'unknown filesystem)
I have to stop here and mention that im a linux noob still so im kind of swimming i deep water here... but im pretty good with mac's and PC's so im not completely lost *ish*
this is the linux forum where my other post is:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showth ... p?t=191768
as u acn see no one there has any ideas either...lol
cheers for your help,
steve
erm... no (probably) is there something i can be adding to that partition that will get it recognized on startup?bootflag set on that partition?
I have got an older fed7 disk that i can boot from, and ive tried to getto that partition from there
ie: disk0s3 /volumes/install/PPC/PPC64/vmlinuz but i just get error after error (im taking it that its because its 'unknown filesystem)
I have to stop here and mention that im a linux noob still so im kind of swimming i deep water here... but im pretty good with mac's and PC's so im not completely lost *ish*
this is the linux forum where my other post is:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showth ... p?t=191768
as u acn see no one there has any ideas either...lol
cheers for your help,
steve
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hm, what about creating some unassigned space on the HDD, then mounting the iso image of the distro in Mac and try to install from there?
for Linux it would be
you most likely have to customize the commands for Mac, but it should work in a similar way. of course I can not guarantee it'll work but it's worth a try...
for Linux it would be
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mkdir -p /mnt/whatever
mount -o loop disk1.iso /mnt/whatever
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Linux usually uses ext3, and ext2 at some occasions
Try mounting with:
Try mounting with:
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hdiutil mount sample.iso
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