Users experience with MOL. (Was: Still stuck with MOL...)

[Eric Dunbar]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:16:54 -0800, Daniel Robitaille
<robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Under Warty I had MOL running without any extra fiddling (except I
> > didn't want to re-install OS X just to get OS X to boot... the OS 9
> > installer CD would boot but I didn't want to futz around with my
> > "real" OS).
> 
> so you need to install OSX from within MOL to be able to use it, or it
> is possible to use OSX installed "by itself" in another partition on
> the machine?

I don't know. I've never really tried very hard to figure out what is
needed. OS X does have to be on a separate partition, and it can be
the same partition/install that you use to boot OS X by itself.
However, I'm not sure if it's possible to take a pre-existing install
and get MOL to recognise it as a bootable partition (it must be
possible, I just don't know how).

> > If you're not absolutely married to Ubuntu, I suggest you also check
> > out YellowDogLinux for PPC (alas, if one suggests the reverse on the
> > YDL lists one unfortunately might get flamed by one  sensitive
> > individuals). It's a PPC-only distro which means they focus far more
> > on PPC-specific problems than any cross-platform distros can (&
> > they're a FC2 (very late in the development cycle so  stable)-based
> > distro if that matters to you).
> 
> After years in a rpm-world (Mandrake/Redhat/Fedora),  I finally
> switched to Debian/Ubuntu last year due to various technical and
> philosophical reasons and haven't regretted yet.    So I'm not married
> to Ubuntu, but I don't want to divorce just yet :)

Glad to hear that. Too many people divorce without trying ;P.

Eric.