installation on Performa 6400

Nathan Moore nmoore at physics.umn.edu
Thu Jan 6 08:36:31 MST 2005


> Don't waste your time with 2.3, unless you can not get 3.0.  That'll
> also take care of question 1
I also have 3.0 disks lying around - will use those next time.

> Yes, you will need a boot partition.
Is placement on the disk (first 10MB) important?

> Are you planning on keeping mac os around other than for booting
> BootX.
No, only need to use it for startup

> How much freespace do you have on the HD?
Drive is 1.6GB, 80MB ram, figure 150MB for swap, 200 MB for OS 8.5, 
rest for linux native
> Are you trying to use the video installer?
Nope, I enjoy the speed of the text installer too

Thanks,

NT



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