Subject: Re: Installing onto Blue&Whte G3
From: Patrick Callahan (pac1@tiac.net)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 17:03:40 MST
On Sunday 02 December 2001 12:03, you wrote:
> > If the second drive is not bootable, you have to
> > modify your bootable
> > original drive's partition table to include the
> > small boot partition. Mine
> > is 30mb. 10mb may be enough.
> >
> > The root partitition /, /home and any other
> > partitions you want can go on the
> > new second drive.
>
> i haven't done anything except format the drive using
> Drive Setup (HFS). if i already have OS 9 installed
> on my primary drive (which is SCSI), do i need to have
> the Mac OS on the drive i want to install Linux on
> (IDE)? can i just partition the drive and install
> Linux by itself?
>
As long as you have macos somewhere, you're ok doing that.
I discussed this today with some folks on #linuxppc and they said that all
you have to do is format and install on the second disk according to the
instructions. You can leave your primary disk, the one with macos as is.
You'll need at least partitions on it for the bootloader, swap and root. I
advise you to also make partitions for /home and an extra ones to hold linux
software you download, so if you have to re-install for any reason, your
e-mail and the stuff you downloaded will not get wiped out by the reinstall.
the stuff I was saying about "bootable' is bogus and based on my incomplete
understanding of how things work behind the scenes. You can ignore all that.
I goofed.
Let us know how things go.
-pat
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