FC5 and Mac OS X

[wwp]

Hello Eric,


On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:42:50 +0200 Eric Donkersloot <eric.donkersloot at gmail.com> wrote:

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

Hah! That's a very good reason :-). Thanks for the tip, Eric.


Regards,

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wwp
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