Re: Shrinking HFS+ causes fatal out of memory

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:21:05PM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> Hi and thanks for your bug report,
> 
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:01:05 +0800 Nick Bower <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Thanks.  Unfortunately this is not so easy however - G5's don't have a 
> > floppy drive (great huh).  Although I'll give it a shot trying to create 
> > a boot cd or something.
> 
> I think there are some gentoo live cd for PPC with gcc.
> If you succeed in building Parted yourself, I would like
> you do it with the --enable-hfs-extract-fs

Just boot the debian installer (preferably sid daily builds) and go upto the
partman step, go to partition 2, and launch parted.

Also, d-i can either be booted from cdrom or netbooted, so it is rather easy
to use, i believe there is even a USB key boot method, altough i never tested
it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther