YDL 3.0 Install on ppc 604e

[Longman, Bill]

But he said in his first message that he doesn't have the Mac disk, so if he
reformats, he's fuqd.

ES,

Madhu gave you good advice on getting BootX set up. Put the parts from the
BootX system into the System Folder and the Extension folder. You'll need
the kernels and the images moved around. Read the README that is in BootX,
its got all these details.

If you have no MacOS disks at all, you are in a real bind. You'll have to
see what your partitions look like in order to determine if you can install
anything. I don't know if YDL will install on an HFS filesystem [I doubt
it.]



> 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