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Re: [Mactel-linux-users] triple booting intel iMac
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From: wilford b. <wor...@gm...> - 2006-05-19 17:09:28
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Hi Sami, thanks for writing back. > Your installer will not see the partition. > The idea of that tutorial is that once you have set up > everything you then run the onstaller and tell it to install > to /mnt/ubuntu. so is there any way with the ubuntu installer to tell it where to install using the boot parameters screen http://ftp.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/dists/warty/main/installer-i386/current/d= oc/manual/en/ch05s01.html#id2511041 > ...and edit > > /mnt/target/etc/hosts, > /mnt/target/etc/hostname and > /mnt/target/etc/fstab > > as described in http://wiki.debian.org/MacMiniIntel, except of course > that I have no swap, and / is mounted from /dev/sda3." > sorry...i'm new to linux, wondering how i should set up my fstab file, i don't know what i should use for the boot and home directories... /dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 ?? /boot vfat defaults 0 0 ?? /home ext3 defaults 0 1 > I used the same tutorial using gentoo live cd 2006.0, ignoring the part > about windows, but i cannot boot linux! After picking my linux partition > from the rEFIt menu it goes into a black screen with a quickly flashing > cursor on the topleft corner. yeah, i haven't been using rEFIt, but i'm guessing even if i had i'd still be pretty useless. thanks for your help! > On 18/05/06, wilford brimley <wor...@gm...> wrote: > > I've had some trouble following the onmac.net howto on triple > > booting.. i do everything but run into problems when i get the the > > partition disks screen in the ubuntu installer...it doesn't recognize > > any of the partitions i've set up using diskutil in osx. i've also > > tried using > > #mkdir /mnt/ubuntu && mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /mnt/ubuntu > > #dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/mnt/ubuntu/swap bs=3D1024 count=3D2097152 > > #mkswap /mnt/ubuntu/swap > > #swapon /mnt/ubuntu/swap > > when i'm formatting the partition and setting up the swap file with > > the gentoo live cd, but i get the same problem...anomaly256 on the > > onmac board said it was because ubuntu's 5.10 default kernel lacks > > both GPT support AND PATA support. also said they tried your > > mactel-linux live cd, but it "had issues seeing the partition > > structure properly without reformatting the entire drive". i'm > > wondering if anyone has had any luck getting ubuntu to work as part of > > a triple boot, i'd really appreciate any help. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, securit= y? > > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job = easier > > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geron= imo > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmdlnk&kid=120709&bid&3057&dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > Mactel-linux-users mailing list > > Mac...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users > > > |