Minimum number of partitions needed to boot only Fedora PPC and machine purchase questions.

Colin Charles byte at aeon.com.my
Fri Jan 14 05:14:03 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 22:20 -0600, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
> I'm considering getting an inexpensive G3 PPC Mac to play around with
> Fedora 
> Core PPC.  I have three questions:
> 
> 1. Does $300 sound like a reasonable amount of money for a G3 iBook?

I guess. Its probably an iBook 2 at the very least right? 600MHz or so

> 2. Is such a machine a reasonable choice for running Fedora Core
> GNU/Linux?

Yup! Airport works too :)

> 3. On i386 machines and compatibles, I can partition the disk so I
> only need 
> partitions that matter to Fedora Core.  Can I do the same for Fedora
> Core PPC 
> and not have any MacOS-related partitions?

Yup. You can have just ext3 based partitions and get rid of all traces
of HFS/HFS+ if you so please
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