YDL on a new dual G5??

[Cian Duffy]

In answer to the partitioning, you can use iPartition to resize the
HFS+ partition and not uninstall OS X. This tool is not free, however.
Otherwise, you need to nuke OSX and reinstall it.

Cian

On 10/08/05, rjgoos at ydl.net <rjgoos at ydl.net> wrote:
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> I am getting a dual G5 Power Mac shortly.  There would be plenty of room on
> the hard drive (250 gig) for Yellow Dog Linux, but I've got some questions...
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> 1.  Does YDL really work on a dual G5?  I seem to recall that it took a while
> for it to work on a G5.
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> 2.  Would I need to, essentially, destroy everything that comes pre-installed
> on the hard drive?  In other words, would I need to boot from the OSX Cds,
> erase the hard drive, re-partition, re-install (hopefully) everything from
> Apple, then install YDL?  I would be afraid that I would screw that up, and
> not get either YDL OR OSX running.
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> I'm wondering if it would be worth the effort.
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> Thanks,
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> RJ
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