YDL 3.0 Install on ppc 604e

[Antonio Netzer]

Since your 2gig is mac formatted, probably hfs (instead of hfs+)
you are going to have to reformat the hard drive, but you will lose all 
data on the harddrive, so make sure you have a bootable floopy or 7.6 disk 
to boot from
once you are ready to partition , with disk utility, make about 200mb 
macos partition to install bootx, some say that your partition can be a 
lot smaller, so what you can do, is install the smallest system you can, 
and find out how much disk space it takes, then repartition again, taking 
just a few mb above that space.....
the remaining hard drive space should be left as free, 
i'm not sure how familiar you are with Disk Utility, but choose the one 
partition option and then use your mouse to manually reduce the partition.  
The remaining space will be left as free space, the linux installer will 
see this and configure it automatically to a /,home, and swap partition.

good luck

Netz
 On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 MoC888@aol.com wrote:

>        I've got a PowerMac 7300/180.  I'm fairly new to linux, only having 
> used Mandrake 9.1/8.2 on x86 for a month now.  I can't get the Bootx thingy 
> quite figured out.  I want to install YDL 3.0 on a 2 gig HD that currently has Mac 
> OS 8.1.  I have no unpartitioned HD space, and I can't reinstall OS 8.1 
> because the previous owner didn't give me the CD. (Therefor making it an illegal 
> copy of OS 8.1, that's why I'm ditching it.)
>     Any help?
> Thanx,
> ES
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