Subject: Re: Newbie installation questions...
From: Eric Fronberg (enf@cisco.com)
Date: Mon May 29 2000 - 13:00:21 MDT
So if I understand you correctly, you recommend taking the 27Gb drive
and splitting it up into the partitions.
Partition 1 -- MacOs (Main OS) HFS -- System boot (also used as xfer
area between YDL
and MacOS)
Partition 2 -- MacOS (Applications ++) HFS+
Partition 3 -- SWAP ??? format
Partition 4 -- root ??? format
It sounds like there's no way for me to get out of having to reinstall
everything. :-( I'm just going to need to get into Drive Setup and
rearange the structure of my disk.
Am I going to be 'screwed' because I can't boot from other than the
first partition?
If I read the doc's correctly, I think that I can use bootx with the iMac 333.
(though I also have the option of yaboot).
-- enf
>
> You will need (at least) two partitions for YDL:
> -a "swap" partition for virtal memory;
> -a "root" partition for the linux filesystem
>
> Linux cannot be installed "on top of" an HFS filesystem - it needs it's
> own. However, there is an extension (MountX) that will allow you to
> mount the linux ext2-formatted partition in MacOS, and you han mount HFS
> (but not HFS+ to the best of my knowledge) partitions in linux.
>
> I have an older machine that boots via BootX, but your iMac should (I
> think) use yaBoot to get into linux from MacOS. Unfortunately, I am
> pretty sure both of these need to read the linux kernel from your MacOS
> (HFS) drive and will not work with an HFS+ drive.
>
> You might consider a 2gb HFS partition for just the MacOS, 4gb ext2 for
> YDL, 256mb for linux swap, and the balance HFS+ for all your other MacOS
> stuff - with the caveat that anything on the HFS+ will be invisible to YDL.
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