Subject: Re: Installing MacOSX along with existing Linux Partitions, How?
From: Chayim Kirshen (ckirshen@linuxppc.org)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 02:48:21 MDT
William,
I was the one who had it all working. The easiest thing to do is
have OSX run on a 3rd partition. If you have 9 and 10 separate then it
becomes really easy to use yaboot to boot between everything. For great
information look up the linux-pdsik tutorial. You can get it off ben's
yaboot page. It's also well written in the yaboot HOWTO.
Chayim
William K. Gibson wrote:
>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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