Hello Eric, On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:42:50 +0200 Eric Donkersloot <eric.donkersloot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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. Hah! That's a very good reason :-). Thanks for the tip, Eric. Regards, -- wwp
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