On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 15:24 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > (Giving a little more detail:) > > On Aug 23, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Craig White wrote: > Actually, I pre-partitioned the yaboot partition and the Linux big > partition with the Mac OS X utility, as well. And the Mac OS 9 utility. ---- I had hoped that someone with experience with multi-boot on Macintosh would have piped in because I lack this experience myself but I got the impression that the Fedora installer created the yaboot partition itself but I may have just let it. looking at a Mac with Fedora 8 installed, the anaconda-ks.cfg reports... #clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=hda #part appleboot --fstype "Apple Bootstrap" --size=1 --ondisk=hda #part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=hda #part / --fstype ext3 --size=1 --grow --ondisk=hda #part swap --size=256 --grow --maxsize=512 --ondisk=hda So evidently, I must have allowed the druid to create the partitions but note that anaconda on a ppc permits an fstype of 'Apple Bootstrap' so yeah, if you are gonna install multi-boot, you gotta have 1 mb partition designated for it. this may be useful (apparently you can't use fdisk on an Apple system) # parted -l Model: Maxtor 6Y080L0 (ide) Disk /dev/hda: 82.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: mac Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 512B 32.8kB 32.3kB Apple 2 32.8kB 1081kB 1049kB hfs untitled boot 3 1081kB 106MB 105MB ext3 untitled 4 106MB 641MB 535MB linux-swap swap swap 5 641MB 82.0GB 81.3GB ext3 untitled obviously the yaboot partition is #2 ---- > > ---- > > I haven't done multi-boot Mac's but I have done a bunch of > > different Mac > > setups. I'm not really a fan of multi-boot on any hardware choice. > > Different requirements. I need to take time out to learn how to > program for ODF and PDF, so I can build programs that will do some > things I presently use AppleWorks documents to accomplish. Until > then, I need to be able to do a lot of work in the Mac OS. ---- Appleworks is a black hole...it's virtually impossible to get documents out of Appleworks unless you are willing to open each one individually, save it as the Microsoft equivalent which is a time hog. OOo has a terrific set of tools for document creation...I think it puts Appleworks to shame. ---- > Anyway, if there is an openfirmware incantation that I can use > instead of installing yaboot, I could try that the next time I have > time to work on this. ---- I don't think so (on ppc...this is all you get) - OFI is for the Intel based Macs ---- > Hate to be noisy, but I sure appreciate any pointers I can get. ---- you probably got the best I had to offer - I actually made a clean install of OS 9.1 that I then made into a dmg file with 'Disk Utility' so I could just dump a full OS 9 setup onto any computer running OSX so it would work in Classic Mode or reboot to OS 9 if I chose it in 'Startup Disk' (it's just under 300 mb). Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
