Subject: Booting only to Linux
From: Doug Philips (dgou@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Jan 06 2002 - 23:21:08 MST
I just upgraded the disk on my 266MHz iMac and thought I'd pass on a tidbit
for consideration.
Since I am only going to run Linux (no MacOS on this machine), and since I
had a fresh disk, I knew that I had to run the MacOS drive initializer and
install to get the initial magic partitions onto the disk (hey, they're just
bits, why canna YDL do it instead?). Once the drive was initialized, I
started the OS installation. As soon as it got past the 'updating drivers'
at the beginning I cancelled it and rebooted into the YDL install disk. The
magic partitions were their, so I was able to reorganize the the rest of the
disk and do my install with only about 5 minutes spent getting MacOS to do
the partition dirty work. No need to install the MacOS at all!
-Doug
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