Subject: Installing MacOSX along with existing Linux Partitions, How?
From: William K. Gibson (firstdesk@columbus.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 11:25:20 MDT
Hi all,
I recall somebody saying they had OSX on their drive and were using Yaboot
to triple boot into linux, OSX, and OS9. I would like to do the same thing,
but I wonder if I can use some existing partitions to receive OSX so that I
can still use MOL on my OS9 partition from LinuxPPC.
I have a 12 gig OS9 partition, about 6 gigs of LinuxPPC partitions, and I
have two back to back ~1.3 gig partitions on my 20 gig disk that are simply
blank. They are linux partitions I use for some testing purposes. Ideally, I
would like to merge those two partitions into one partition that will
contain OSX.
Here are my questions:
-Must I in fact put OSX on another partition to use MOL? I.e. could I put
OSX on my OS9 partition and still use MOL somehow (I'm thinking not).
-Can I reformat the blank partitions for OSX without initializing my entire
disk? Drive Setup won't seem to do it. Perhaps I can use fdisk/pdisk?
-How do I set up Yaboot to triple boot LinuxPPC, OSX, and OS9?
Thanks, I realize this might be an unusual question.
--William K. Gibson
1stDesk Systems
firstdesk@columbus.rr.com
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