Dual boot ydl and OS X

[Greg Hamilton]

The machine is a 500MHz dual USB iBook. I replaced the ailing original 
10Gb HD with a 40Gb drive. I installed OS 9 on a 10Gb partition and 
then installed YDL 3.0 on the remaining 30Gb. So I now have a big ext2 
partition, a Linux swap partition, an HFS+ partition and all those 
other weird little partitions OS9 seems to depend on.

I'm sure OS 9 and OS X can live on the same HFS+ partition provided you 
have all those other little partitions for OS 9 to do it's thing and OS 
X should fit comfortably on the OS 9 partition. The only thing I use it 
for is playing Civ III, I don't think there's anything else installed 
there other than the OS.

I'd totally forgotten about the Option key. That should do the trick. 
I'm feeling pretty brave, I might give it a go.

Greg



On 18/02/2004, at 12:37 PM, K Hanai wrote:

> Do you have enough space for OSX?
> It needs a lot of space, first install may require 1.5 GB without any
> application. When you install applications, it is easy to eat up 7 - 8
> GB of disk space. OSX makes swap files in the root hfs+ partition,
> then some another space is neccessary for its normal operation.
>
> If you have enough hfs+ space, you can install OSX. OSX install may
> change current OF setup for the dual boot. But it is easy to restore
> the setup. After OSX install, you can boot YDL by the option bootup.
> Press option key during startup, you will see the current boot
> partitions including the YDL startup disk on the screen. By selecting
> the YDL partition (exactly speaking, this is the Apple_bootstrap
> partition), you can boot YDL. In the YDL, issue "ybin -v", then
> you can restore your dual boot setup.
>
> HTH
> kaz
>
> From: Greg Hamilton <gregh@object-craft.com.au>
>> My iBook currently has YDL 3.0.1 and OS 9 installed. I'd like to
>> install OS X 10.3 as well. I believe OS 9 and OS X can be installed on
>> the same partition so I don't think I'll need to blow away OS 9.
>>
>> Will installing Panther overwrite my boot block requiring me to
>> re-install yaboot? If so how do I do this?
>>
>> Do the problems associated with 10.2.8 and YDL also apply to 10.3? I
>> think I should be OK here as I believe the solution to the 10.2.8
>> problem was to upgrade to a 2.4.22 kernel. I'm using 2.4.22-2g
>> installed using yum.
>>
>> Does MOL support Panther yet?
>>
>> Greg
>>
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