Setting up a G4...

[Ron Smith]

Okay, I'm a little confused here. Are you going to end up with 3 OSes 
installed (OS 9, OS X, and YDL) or just 2 (YDL and OS X that has been 
upgraded from OS 9)?

At any rate  you will need to boot from a MacOS CD and use the Disk 
Utility to create some partitions, one for each OS, and optionally one 
for them all to share.

OS 9 needs an HFS or HFS+ partition
OS X needs an HFS or HFS+ partition
YDL needs an "unallocated" or "unused" partition (the wording seems to 
depend on which version of Disk Utility being used)

If you want to have a "shared" partition that all of the operating 
systems can use to share files, it needs to be HFS (*not* HFS+). All of 
the Mac OSes understand HFS and YDL does too. At the moment YDL does 
not support HFS+ (for reading AND writing) without making some rather 
advanced changes to the system.

Whether you use BootX or yaboot depends on whether your machine is a 
"new world" or "old world" ROM machine. I not certain, but I think that 
all of the G4s are new world. New world uses yaboot, old world use 
BootX.

If you would like more detailed instructions, just let me know.

-Ron

On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 12:01 PM, rjgoos@ydl.net wrote:

>
>
> I've been offered a Power Mac G4 and 17 inch monitor at a price that I 
> can't
> refuse.  I was thinking of replacing the 9 gig hard drive for a much 
> larger
> one, and setting it up as both a 9.2/0Sx, as well as aYDL machine.
>
> OK...let me outline the steps I would take to set up these drives.  
> Please
> offer any suggestions/corrections.  Let's assume I get an 80 gig hard 
> drive.
>
>
> 1.  I'd boot with a OS 9 disk.  I'd format, say 50 gigs of the hard 
> drive
> (which format?), and I would leave 30 gigs of it "unallocated."
>
> 2.  I'd install OS 9 onto the 50 gig partition.
>
> 3.  I'd upgrade to 9.2.2 on the 50 gig partition.
>
> 4.  I'd install YDL on the 30 gig unallocated portion.
>
> 5.  I'd install OS X on the 50 gig side.
>
> 6.  I'd install my apps on their respective partitions.
>
> I am only familar with Boot X.  Should I use Boot X or yaboot?
>
> Is there some kind of partitioning format that will allow both the YDL 
> and the
> 9.2/OS X to see the same files?
>
> Thanks.
>
> RJ Goos
>
>
>
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