Subject: Re: Linux on Expansion Bay Drive
From: Black (cpa@ece.cmu.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2000 - 10:06:35 MDT
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Adam Oliner wrote:
I have linux running off my expansion bay HD just fine with my Powerbook.
It isn't a firewire so I could use both the CD-ROM and the HD at the same
time. However, my disks got stolen and I had to do another install, so
I've done it both ways. I believe you can do it from the disk image, but
I'm not sure, someone else should chime in and correct me. However, I did
a straight hard drive install. You want to go ahead and partition the
expansion bay HD with an HFS partition. This needs to be big enough to
hold the install files. You can then just dump the YellowDog folder (it
has 'RPMS' and 'base' inside of it) onto the HFS partition and then pick
hard drive install in the installer. It will ask you where the install
tree is and you pick the partition that has it (which you will probably be
able to do by just looking at the sizes of the partitions if you don't
know the partitions name...). After that it works just like installing off
the CD...
> 2) I have a Firewire Powerbook, on which I would like to install YDL
> CS1.2. I burnt two CD's (the installer and the treats from the disk
> images). Instead of moving everything off my internal HD,
> reformatting, etc., I thought it would be easier and cleaner to
> partition a HD in the expansion bay and install YDL on that. Problem
> being I can't have both the HD and the CD-ROM in the bay
> simultaneously. Any ideas as to how I should go about getting Linux
> on this machine, one way or another?
>
> FYI: The internal is 12 GB, the bay is an 8 GB.
>
> Thanks in advance.
- Christopher Andrews
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