Subject: Re: Linux on Expansion Bay Drive
From: Adam Oliner (adam@rpdesign.com)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2000 - 14:19:50 MDT
I have tried following the intructions at
http://www.modctek.com/linux_report.htm but at the Open Firmware
prompt it can't find the Bootstrap partition of my bay drive. It
isn't hd:9, even though that's the first partition of the bay drive.
Do I start numbering differently because it's not my internal drive?
>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
--Adam Oliner Director of Technology Reference Point Design <http://www.rpdesign.com>
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