Subject: Re: Linux on Expansion Bay Drive
From: Black (cpa@ece.cmu.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2000 - 15:28:41 MDT
I have an old enough Powerbook that I can use BootX instead of yaboot to
drop into linux. However, it is indeed likely that hd:9 will not work for
you since it is a different drive. For me, the device that I got for my
expansion bay was hde, so for partition 9 that would be hde:9. however, my
main drive was hda. Like I said, I've never used yaboot. Someone who has
might like to say something. However, that will be the same for whether
you use the CD or not, you are just starting up the ramdisk that is on the
bootstrap partition for the install anyways...
-Christopher Andrews
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Adam Oliner wrote:
> 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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