Subject: Re: no MacOS on iMac?
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 21:56:56 MDT
Hi - Unless you need to work with a lot of data, the 4.5 GB you have left
over should be more than sufficient. Even with a full install and a
generous swap partition, you should have a couple GB free for future use.
If for some reason you still want to use the whole disk for Linux, you can
change the partition type, build an ext2 file system on the partition, and
mount it someplace convenient under Linux. This of course assumes that you
are not using anything on the HFS partition in order to boot Linux.
Jim
Doug Philips's bits of Thu, 21 Jun 2001 translated to:
>Hi all,
> I've tried using the site's search engine to find the answer to this, but
>with no luck. Pointers to archived messages with the answers greatly
>appreciated.
> I'm running 2.0 on a Tangerine iMac (266Mhz, only upgrade is to add another
>128MB of memory to the "stock" system).
> After booting from the MacOS CD and partitioning my only disk, then
>installing YDL, I decided that I don't want to keep MacOS on this thing at
>all. I'd like to use the whole disk for YDL (its only 6GB and I've carved
>out 1.5GB for MacOS) instead. I can't seem to locate any info in the printed
>book, or on the website, but I figure I can't be the first person to want to
>do this. ;-)
> Thanks,
> -Doug
>
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