Minimal YDL install on 2-GB hard drive

[Norberto Quintanar]

I've never owned a Wallstreet G3, but one of my employees has one and
he has YDL 3.0 running on it, without any of the mac os partitions. 
He just put the YDL install disk #1 in the pooter and he held down
the "C" button and voila.  Of course, it runs kinda slow, copmared to
the G4 cube we have.  

Did you get a deal on the hard drive?  That's my only gripe with
using maccs, hardware is Soooooo expensive compared to PC hardware.  

--- Clinton MacDonald <clint.macdonald@ttuhsc.edu> wrote:
> Mr. Quintanar:
> 
> Thank you for your comments:
> 
> On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 08:10  AM, Norberto Quintanar
> wrote:
> > --- Clinton MacDonald <clint.macdonald@ttuhsc.edu> wrote:
> >> I recently obtained a 1998 "PowerBook G3 Series" (otherwise
> known as 
> >> "Wallstreet"; 233 MHz G3 processor, 256 MB of RAM, 12.1 inch 800
> x 
> >> 600 pixel screen). It has a 2-GB hard drive. How can I install a
> 
> >> minimal, but functional version of Linux on it? What strategy
> should 
> >> I use to achieve a 1-GB installation?
> >
> > Unless you really need Mac OS, you can install YDL 3.0 without
> it.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't think one can install any version of Linux
> on an 
> "Old World" Mac (like the Wallstreet) without a boot partition 
> containing the Macintosh OS.
> 
> > Or get a biger hard drive.
> 
> Well, that's the solution I finally arrived at myself, even though
> I 
> previously thought that 2 GB was enormous. :-) So, yesterday I
> ordered 
> a new 25-GB, 5400 rpm hard drive to install in the Wallstreet.
> Sweet!
> 
> (Somehow, that really goes against my grain, though. I still
> remember 
> the days when my 20 MB hard drive seemed *huge*, and I could still
> put 
> the entire Macintosh operating system, an application, and a few
> word 
> processing files on a single 1.4-MB floppy. Sigh.)
> 
> Nevertheless, last night I managed to get YDL to install on the 1.5
> GB 
> partition. It seems to run reasonably well, with only one minor 
> problem... which will be the subject of my next e-mail message.
> 
> Thanks, again!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Clint
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint.macdonald@ttuhsc.edu>
> 
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