Subject: Re: Linux on Expansion Bay Drive
From: Charles Stevenson (csteven@terraplex.com)
Date: Tue Aug 08 2000 - 15:30:44 MDT
Alternative to specifying "hd" you can use "ultra0" for first IDE/ATA and
"ultra1" for the second IDE/ATA in the chain.
Best Regards,
Charles Stevenson
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> 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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