FC5 and Mac OS X

[Eric Donkersloot]

On 7/11/06 4:31 PM, "wwp" <subscript at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello Steven,
> 
> 
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:21:23 -0700 Steven Ringwald
> <SRingwald at telesmartnetworks.com> 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
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Eric Donkersloot
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