PPC 8500/150 running ?Newtech? G# processor

[Rickard E]

Thomas wrote:

> Dear Chris
>
> On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 04:51 PM, Chris Bacon wrote:
>
>>
>> Main Question: Is there a way to wipe out the whole
>> system and just boot off of a Floppy and install YDL
>> by itself? Sounds like a PC question because that's
>> what I'm used to.
>>
>
> There is a way to boot from a separate small HFS partition and to 
> install and reboot the system that way.
>
> You will need a bootable Mac OS System CD in addition to that.
>
>> I don't want to have any MAC software on this system.
>>
>
> Well, I don't know if the present version supports it, but on my 
> PowerBook I do not have any Mac OS residue. The HD was wiped, I booted 
> from the YDL2.3 CD and installed according to the suggestions. Those 
> included creating a small HFS partition for boot-up purposes. I did as 
> suggested and it worked excellently - it's an YDL-only PowerBook now. 
> Since Apple has chosen to create models with a number of small but 
> important hardware differences, (weird quirks, IMHO) this may not work 
> on all models, I suppose. My PB is a G3, "Bronze", I think.

Cheers
/RID