iMac: installing to a secondary Firewire drive?

[Asko Kauppi]

That looks like worth trying.

In fact, booting Ubuntu from one of these: 
http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/
wouldn't be that bad.. ;P


7.4.2005 kello 20:01, John Levin kirjoitti:


> On 7 Apr 2005, at 15:39, Asko Kauppi wrote:
>
>>
>> I have a "flat screen" iMac that I'd like to try Ubuntu on, _if_ it 
>> poses no threat to the existing OS X installation.  There is a 
>> firewire drive I could spare some 6-10GB for a working Ubuntu 
>> install, if it's possible to do so.  I won't touch the main hard 
>> disk.  period.
>>
>> So..  Is there anyone who'se done this, or a neat hand-holding guide 
>> to get there?  I know the fw drive will need to be repartitioned, and 
>> issues like that.
>>
>> In a Perfect World, the Ubuntu/ppc boot cd could have a partitioning 
>> tool capable of doing all this (incl. shrinking the existing fw 
>> data?) but that'd be too much to be asked in 2005, would it?
>>
>> Without such a tool, running Ubuntu on PPC hardware will be limited 
>> to the all-for-linux guys (I'm not) and those having old hardware 
>> (within 2 years, this will apply).
>>
>> thanks. :)  -ak
>>
>
> The only thing I've found that might help you is:
> http://www.orawski.com/~timon/debianppc-usb/index.php
> No idea if firewire rather than usb would make a differenec.
> This is one of those things I'd like to try, but lack both time and 
> equipment (ie external hd)
>
> Hope this helps
>
> john
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