On 7/11/06 4:31 PM, "wwp" <subscript@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Steven, > > > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:21:23 -0700 Steven Ringwald > <SRingwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 18:23 -0700, Matt Beals wrote: >> >>> I'd like to install FC5 on my Apple PowerBook G4. I would prefer to >>> not have to reformat and partition my hard drive to do this. Has >>> anyone tried this? What do you think? >> >> >> It is a great idea, actually. I did this exact thing on my MacMini >> (which I believe is also a G4). What I ended up doing is buying a >> firewire drive, using DiskTool (I believe) to create a backup of my >> current system volume, change the boot device to be the firewire drive, >> reboot (now off of Firewire rather than the internal hard-drive), >> repartition the internal drive into two partitions (with the first >> being for MacOS and the rest being for Linux), and then copied the >> firewire partition back, remarked the internal drive's MacOS partition >> as the boot boot-drive, and voila! internal drive resized. >> >> Then I just followed the directions in the FC5 Anaconda installer, >> making sure that I didn't blow away the MacOS partition. >> >> If anything goes wrong, you can always plug that firewire drive back in, >> press Option-F (I think that is the combo) while booting, and it will >> boot off firewire instead of the internal device. >> >> Hope this helps. It was off the top of my head. I can point you to more >> detailed directions, if you need. > > Why not using bootcamp for this? There have been experiences reported > here, but you can also look here: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1085375#post1085375 Well, Bootcamp only works on Intel Macs, not on ppc platforms. > > > Regards, Met vriendelijke groeten / Kind regards, Eric -- Eric Donkersloot Amsterdam, The Netherlands eric.donkersloot@xxxxxxxxx
