Quadruple boot YDL, Gentoo PPC, Mac OS X, Mac OS 9???

[Ron Smith]

Yes, you will be able to add it to yaboot. When you do the YDL install 
it will automatically make the keys for YDL "l" and OS X "x" and you 
can just by add Gentoo later by modifying /etc/yaboot.conf and then 
running /usr/ybin/ as root. Use the entries for YDL and OS X in 
/etc/yaboot.conf  as a template.

As far as sharing the /home and swap, I think it should be possible. 
Obviously you need to make /home on its own partition and mountpoint 
(as opposed to just a directory in a big / partition which is something 
a lot of people like to do). I am thinking that maybe after you install 
(or possibly during install) of Gentoo you will be able to edit its  
/etc/fstab to make it use the shared /home and swap.

You may also want to consider adding a /shared partition that can be 
used by all the OSes. I do this to share data between YDL and OS X and 
if Gentoo understands HFS filesystems it could access it as well. Note 
that currently only HFS is supported by YDL, not HFS+ (well, not 
without some kernel mods anyway), and if you are using a Mac Disk 
Utility to set up the partitions on the disk Mac OS Extended means HFS+ 
and Mac OS Standard means HFS.

-Ron

On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 12:40 PM, mail@pdaconsult.co.uk wrote:

> Lastly, would it be possible to add a key to boot gentoo? I thought 'g'
> for gentoo would be fairly obvious!