YDL 3.01 on Second partition?

[Michael Torrie]

On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 21:10, Tony Clark wrote:
> Bummer about the power management and airport; I mostly sit in the back 
> room and work on airport.   Still; I guess it could come one day...
> 
> So did you install on the first or second partition of your drive?  I'm 
> already well set up with OSX on the first and not keen to re-build the 
> thing again for OSX on the second partition as per the instructions...

OS X was already installed, so it is on the first partition of course. 
Linux resides comfortably in partitions 3 and 4.  Partitioning is just
like in x86, almost.  I just told yellowdog to do an automatic
partition, using free space.  Now I get the boot loader prompt that I
can hit x for os x, or l for linux.

> 
> I guess its time to dive in...
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> TOny
> 
> On 29/12/2003, at 1:56 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 19:59, Tony Clark wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I had a bit of a search on the lists, but nothing much came up on 
> >> this.
> >>   Is there a reason I can't install YDL on my second Mac partition?  I
> >> have a PB G4 12" with 10.3 on the first partition and a spare 10GB
> >> partition for a form of Linux.  I'd like to put YDL on it, but the 
> >> docs
> >> all seem to insist on it going on the first which is a bit of a pain
> >> given that I have a neatly installed 10.3 and all my apps on the first
> >> (larger, of course) partition.
> >
> > I have a PB 12" 1 OS X 10.3 partition.  Just make sure you have the
> > latest iso images that can deal with 10.3's partitioning.  Works rather
> > well.
> >
> > The only showstopper on the 12" is that there is *no* support (nada,
> > none) for any power management at all.  No sleep, no control over the
> > screen brightness or anything.  The CPU runs at full speed (no /proc
> > control over CPU speed in the 12" either) and the CPU fan is on
> > full-time.  You'll get about 60 minutes of battery life.  In short, 
> > it's
> > pretty useless to use as a real laptop.  Hopefully this will be 
> > remedied
> > in the near future.  Other than that, and the fact that Broadcom is
> > being a complete retard about releasing specs for drivers on their
> > airport extreme (which will most likely never be supported under 
> > linux),
> > OS X and linux will get along just fine.  I'm typing this on my
> > yellowdog install right now.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >>
> >> Any help appreciated!
> >>
> >> Tony
> >>
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