On Mar 25, 2004, at 8:06 AM, Kevin wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 18:46, Bryce C wrote: >> I should clarify, mine is an iBook G3 (Early 2003), running OSX via >> dual-boot and MOL. Interesting. > > Bryce, that is exactly what I am interested in. I am considering a > PowerBook G4, but I must be able to dual-boot between Gentoo and OSX > Panther. I know I can run several Linux distros on the PowerBook, but > I > need to retain the ability to dual-boot into native OSX. Dual booting is not a problem. > Anyway, can you clarify? Is it possible to install > Linux and OSX into separate partitions on a PowerBook and dual boot > between them with Grub or something similar? I am assuming it's > possible. The easiest way is to use Open Firmware. Just hold down one of the alt/option keys at boot and you will see icons for Linux and OS X. Click on the penguin. (I'm not kidding). > > My google searches are taking me in many different directions, but no > clear answers. A PowerBook G4 is a bit too expensive for the > "buy-it-and-try-it" plan I usually take. > > Also, reading the MOL docs it looks like MOL is booting an OSX (or > MacOS) installation from a partition on the drive. Is that right? It > is clearly not a hardware emulation environment (like VMWare) where one > can install a "guest" OS within the VM. Am I getting close? You are right. I don't want to start a distro war but *at first* I think you should start with Yellow Dog on PPC hardware simply because YDL is by far the most popular PPC Linux. There is a big community and you wont encounter issues that haven't been solved by others. Later you can move to another distro if YDL doesn't meet your needs for some reason. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss