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| 10:16.28 | AlbertP | Hi all |
| 10:16.48 | AlbertP | I tried installing Debian on an old mac (it turned out to be an iBook G3 instead of PowerBook G3...) |
| 10:17.00 | AlbertP | it failed to resize the HFS+ partition of Mac OS 10.4.11 |
| 10:21.16 | AlbertP | Mac OS X sudo diskutil resizevolume disk0s10 30G didn't work either, "error resizing partition" |
| 10:31.33 | pahartik | AlbertP: It is easier to create appropriate partitions and filesystems to empty disk than resizing them |
| 10:31.49 | AlbertP | but we don't want to wipe OSX |
| 10:33.26 | simonlnu | AlbertP: might want to fsck it |
| 10:34.14 | AlbertP | does Debian have a Live CD or something like that, which I can boot to do fsck? |
| 10:34.32 | simonlnu | um, i meant the mac os x |
| 10:36.33 | pahartik | AlbertP: Booting to IEEE-1394 target-disk-mode and resizing partitions and filesystems from another MacOS X system could work |
| 10:37.44 | AlbertP | we're currently planning to get the harddisk out of the computer, to do the partitioning on another linux box with a USB to IDE converter. And we don't have another Mac. |
| 10:39.05 | AlbertP | Would another Linux (x86) system be able to fsck & resize the HFS+? |
| 10:39.27 | pahartik | AlbertP: If that other host has IEEE-1394, it should work just as well, just by attaching cable |
| 10:40.46 | AlbertP | pahartik: we don't have another Mac to do that, but we have Windows/Linux computers with firewire. |
| 10:40.56 | pahartik | AlbertP: And I do not know about resize, did I ever do that to HFS+ |
| 10:41.55 | AlbertP | That "IEEE-1394 target-disk-mode", how does that work exactly? |
| 10:42.57 | AlbertP | google results say it's holding down T key when the mac turns on (just like C key for cd boot) |
| 10:43.15 | pahartik | AlbertP: One way to activate target-disk-mode is by holding down T key when powering up |
| 10:43.53 | AlbertP | OK, then I can just connect a firewire cable, and the disk of the Mac appears as a firewire connected disk on the other computer? Great! |
| 10:44.23 | pahartik | AlbertP: Yes, that is how it should work |
| 10:45.02 | AlbertP | now I just need to get a FireWire cable, but that shouldn't be a problem, there's a local computer store offering those cables. |
| 10:45.10 | AlbertP | Thank you for your help pahartik |
| 10:45.41 | AlbertP | Tomorrow we'll try it. If I run into problems I'll return here. |
| 10:46.20 | AlbertP | Bye. |
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