Subject: Re: OS 9 Driver Question (Was Please Help with G4 Install)
From: harlan (harlan@slip.net)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 21:24:42 MST
As far as I can tell, most of the people who had trouble with OS9 were
those who did the OS9 update AFTER installing Linux. Those who install
Linux after installing OS9 do not have this problem.
...Harlan
>My mileage (yours may vary); I installed OS 9 awhile ago. Because of all
> the horror stories I had heard about not being able to boot into linux
>afterwards (I think more on the linuxppc lists), I was very careful not
>to update my disk drivers. However, during the install it wanted to
>overwrite a folder with a file of the same name (I think it was disk
>copy, I had it in a folder called "disk copy" and that was the same
>place the installer wanted to put the version of disk copy) so it
>stopped the install. I had to go and get rid of the folder and start
>over. This time I forgot to turn off update disk driver (I had a heavily
>customized install going so I had a lot of options to remember). I
>realised this as it was going through but it was too late (updates the
>drivers right at the beginning). However, I've had no problems booting
>into linux after this update. The only things I can figure are:
>
>1. Most of the problems I read about were on the Linuxppc list and this
>is just one of the many ways that ydl is superior.
>
>2. I have 2 drives (the standard 4gb from my G3 and a 6.4gb I added). My
>linux stuff is all on the 6.4gb drive but I boot the MacOS off of my 4gb
>drive. Perhaps the installer only updates the drivers for the drive that
>contains the partition your installing to.
>
>Anyways, I'm not complaining because it works for me.
>
>Frugal
>
>Sean Bittinger wrote:
>>
>> As far as I know it's an ATA/OS 9 problem, I know it happened on my G3. I
>> think your SCSI should be ok. As long as you have OS 9 on a drive (you
>> still need Mac OS or else the hardware won't start up) you shouldn't need OS
>> 9 on both, you may want to check around on this though (read the install
>> binder, and check YDL's website, too).
>
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