[CLUE-Tech] OldWorld G3 help

[Francis Maier]

Thanks for the responses so far, folks, but I'm still flummoxed about my
partitioning problem.  What am I doing wrong?  Why won't Debian
recognize my UFS partitions?  Should I make them free space instead of
Unix format?  Do I have to reformmat the whole disk and start again?

-----Original Message-----
From: Francis Maier 
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 5:25 AM
To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
Subject: [CLUE-Tech] OldWorld G3 help


I'd like to install Debian Woody on my OldWorld PowerMac -- a beige
desktop G3/300 with 768 meg RAM, which I upgraded with an XLR8 ZIF to a
G4/500.  

I'd like to run OSX and OS 9 on the same hard drive as Linux.  You Mac
folks will remember that, with the beige G3s, OSX must be installed in
the first partition of the hard drive, and that first partition must be
less than 8 gigs in size.

My hard drive is EIDE, and about 28 gigs.  Using OSX Disk Utility, I
created a first partition of 7.9 gigs in HFS+ for OSX; a second
partition of 11 gigs in HFS+ for OS9; a third, small partition of just
32 megs in HFS to run BootX; then a fourth Swap partition of 256 megs in
UFS; and finally a fifth Root partition of about 10 gigs in UFS.

Debian begins to install fine, but then can't find or create any Linux
partitions.  I belatedly discovered that using Apple Disk Utility for
partitioning is a bad idea, and Debian will apparently not recognize UFS
partitions -- or at least those created by OSX.

Is there any way I can make Debian work now without wiping my hard drive
and starting again?  Alternately, what partitioning scheme and tool
should I use?  Am I going about this correctly?  Is having all three OSs
on my beige G3 even possible?  Thanks for any help.   
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