iMac: installing to a secondary Firewire drive?

[Asko Kauppi]

Oh, I know it can be done, and have done the same on x86 hardware.

However, since repartitioning Macs is such a pain (it is..) the 
benefits for test-driving Ubuntu on Mac hardware would be much bigger.  
Also, using iPod shuffle would make it so.. apple-ish.  in a way.

What I'd like to have, really, is a step-by-step guideline at the 
Ubuntu wiki on how to set this up.  Maybe the Debian page you mentioned 
earlier will be a starter.  I'll look into it during the weekend.

now, happy evening,

-ak


7.4.2005 kello 21:33, John Levin kirjoitti:


> On 7 Apr 2005, at 18:55, Asko Kauppi wrote:
>
>>
>> That looks like worth trying.
>>
>> In fact, booting Ubuntu from one of these: 
>> http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/
>> wouldn't be that bad.. ;P
>>
>>
>
> Yellow Dog offer (hard drive) iPods that boot linux:
> Press release: 
> http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/news/2005/2005-03-09.shtml
> They also offer firewire drives with YDL on - which relates to your 
> previous query about booting Ubuntu from external firewire hds.
>
> As the shuffle is a flash device, it should be possible to boot from 
> it - apparently Macs have been able to boot from flash devices since 
> circa 1999:
> http://www.macintouch.com/usbflash.html
> (scroll down to usb booting, and see parts 2 and 3 as well).
>
> HTH
>
> John
>
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