Dual boot ydl and OS X

Tue Feb 17 19:30:02 2004

I've never tried your set up, but I'd say GO FOR IT!!  Then post you
results.  Good or bad.  

--- Greg Hamilton <gregh@object-craft.com.au> wrote:
> 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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