installing on PPC -> partitions

[Michel Klijmij]

Op vr, 01-10-2004 te 08:57 +1000, schreef Justin Kelly:
> to install ubuntu your going to have to back up all your data on the
> powerbook, 
> then the easiest way to partition is to use the OS9 restore CD and use
> the Disk Setup tool thing and create 2-3 partition depending if you
> want linux+os9+osx or just linux+osx, make the mac partition(s) HFS
> extended and make the last partition linux format(as per the tool
> setup), then reintstall your mac os(es) on there correct partition(s)
> and then install ubuntu on the last partition

I can recommend keeping a spare HFS (not extended!) partition to
exchange data between linux and macos. AFAIK linux doesn't really play
nicely with HFS+, so that would make exchanging data rather difficult.

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