partitioning questions

[John]

Derick,

As a real newbie, I wish to thank you, along with perhaps a number of 
others on this list who obviously are pros, for taking the time and 
making the effort to help those of us who are linux and computer amateurs.

I have an iMac G5, my first Mac ever,  which I partitioned into 5 
separate drives when I first got it about 8 months ago  with the idea of 
installing several different linux distributions for PPC, among them YDL 
and Ubuntu.  ( I refuse to purchase Tiger on the grounds that I don't 
really need more bells and whistles than are already on Panther if I 
intend to make a deep commitment to OSS.) 

Frankly, though, I haven't yet tried to install either YDL or Ubuntu 
because after joining this newbie list many months ago I've been 
somewhat intimidated by the many problems others have had.  ( This 
applies in spades to the Fink-beginner list which I'm also on.)  I'm 
like the guy at the edge of the pool who keeps hesitating to jump into 
even the shallower side.  In time, and with further reading, perhaps 
I'll summon up the courage to take the plunge.

Until then, my appreciation to you and others on this list for sharing 
your knowledge and experience.

John Di Stefano

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Derick Centeno wrote:

> I'm going to intersperse my own comments with yours so that there is 
> a  closer appearance of a discussion.
>
> On Aug 9, 2005, at 4:58 PM, David Froseth wrote:
>
>> Derick,
>>    I have finally got what I think is a good bootable backup of my 
>> OS  X & 9 HD, using DiskWarrior and Carbon Copy Cloner.
>
>
> Congratulations!  Really, kudos!
>
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