I agree, YDL may be easiest for you, or any beginner in general. I
installed it once to try it out but it didn't really meet my needs. (Ok,
so I'm in love with Gentoo.) It set everything up without my having to
do any research (where's the fun?). And, it's RH-based for those hung up
on RH.
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 12:27, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> 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? <dumb question> 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. </dumb question>
>
> 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.
>
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