From: Holger Bettag <hobold@Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Multi-boot advice.
Date: 06 Jul 2000 11:37:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8xaefv1tx9.fsf@s62.informatik.uni-bremen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Dan Foster's message of Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:30:03 -0400
Dan Foster <dsf@gblx.net> writes:
>
>
> Hot Diggety! Iain Sandoe was rumored to have wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just got a G4/500 - and I want to configure it to boot:
>
> Me too :) I haven't gotten LinuxPPC 2000 to boot the 2.2.15pre3 kernel yet,
> so haven't installed that one yet, but MacOS 9 and MacOS X works good.
>
> > I think I read that I must put the Linux boot partition before the
> > MacOS - X one?
> > Does it matter which partition is the MacOS-9 one?
>
> According to the OS X docs, I believe it says MacOS 9 must be installed
> first, so presumably first partition or so. MacOS X can go anywhere, as
> I think is also true for LinuxPPC.
>
I recommend installing MacOS X before you install Linux, because the MacOS X
installer can subdivide a single OS X partition into root, swap, and usr
partitions. This changes the numbers of all partitions beyond, potentially
confusing an already installed Linux.
Holger
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2000-07-05 20:40 ` Multi-boot advice Nelson Abramson
2000-07-05 23:30 ` Dan Foster
2000-07-06 9:37 ` Holger Bettag [this message]
2000-07-06 8:39 ` Olaf Hering
2000-07-06 14:38 ` Matt Brubeck
2000-07-06 14:57 ` Matt Brubeck
2000-07-07 5:41 ` Ethan Benson
2000-07-07 6:52 Iain Sandoe
2000-07-07 4:00 ` Nelson Abramson
2000-07-07 7:08 ` Ethan Benson
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2000-07-07 8:46 Iain Sandoe
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