A) Is that partition on a floppy or the harddisk? B) Can I create that while within a live MaxOS 8.0 system? Thank You, Anthony

The last time I played with Linux on a PowerMac if I remember correctly I had to make a small bootable HFS not HFS+ MAC OS partition. You then invoke Linux from an executable on then MAC partition.

This was a couple of years ago so things may have improved a bit by now. At the time I had an 8500 with a G3 processor card.

David Bottrill

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 22:51, Anthony W. Marino wrote:

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Thanks, however, I still can't find what I require. Is it required that I repartition existing MacOS 8 disk and install MacOS first before installing SuSE PPC 7.3??? Is there a problem with the existing disk partitioning utility in MacOS 8???

Thank You, Anthonn

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Hi, I'm attempting to install SuSE 7.3 PPC on the PowerMac 8500 which already had Mac OS 8.0, I believe, on it. I'm not too certain of the installation steps. Is their an online been-there-done-it that I can glean from? Is MacOS req'd for botting? In particular do I have to create additional partition(s) first and reinstall MacOS on it???

Thank You, Anthony

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I don't care to run MacOS at all. I'm just wanting to use this pc for Linux only. With that in mind, what do you suggest is the best way to accomplish my task? I was under the impression that I had to, regardless, boot with MaxOS due to some limitations in my "Oldstyle Hardware" and SuSE Linux? My many greatful thanks!!! Anthony

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 00:07, Anthony W. Marino wrote:

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A) Is that partition on a floppy or the harddisk?

It wouldn't fit on a floppy so I'm afraid you need to partition your disk.

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B) Can I create that while within a live MaxOS 8.0 system?

If you have a spare disk you can partition this for Linux and just put the Linux boot files on your MAC OS disk. Then danger here is that I think your boot disk must HFS not HFS+. If you main disk is HFS+ you can make a small HFS boot partition on your second disk (if you have one) and copy the system folder from you OS8.0 install disk. Set the boot disk in the control panel, you can now install Linux on the rest of your disk.

If you haven't got a spare disk you will need to backup your existing setup and re-partition your disk. I would have a look around for a cheap 2Gig SCSI disk these are relatively easy the find at computer fairs etc.

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Thank You, Anthony

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The last time I played with Linux on a PowerMac if I remember correctly I had to make a small bootable HFS not HFS+ MAC OS partition. You then invoke Linux from an executable on then MAC partition.

This was a couple of years ago so things may have improved a bit by now. At the time I had an 8500 with a G3 processor card.

David Bottrill

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 22:51, Anthony W. Marino wrote:

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Thanks, however, I still can't find what I require. Is it required that I repartition existing MacOS 8 disk and install MacOS first before installing SuSE PPC 7.3??? Is there a problem with the existing disk partitioning utility in MacOS 8???

Thank You, Anthonn

...

Hi, I'm attempting to install SuSE 7.3 PPC on the PowerMac 8500 which already had Mac OS 8.0, I believe, on it. I'm not too certain of the installation steps. Is their an online been-there-done-it that I can glean from? Is MacOS req'd for botting? In particular do I have to create additional partition(s) first and reinstall MacOS on it???

Thank You, Anthony

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