Leave it as free space, I know mandrake ask what you would like to do with it. Try and find Live cd ver. for different distro's that way you have an idea about each one. Not all distro's offer live cd's especially ppc one's.
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Linux on PPC?
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Re: Which file system do I use?
I usually partiton my drive knowing what I'm going to install in this way:
First 6 or so GB reserved for YDL
Rest for OS X (+ maybe a Data partition).
I use the disk utility of OS X install CD.
Then I install OS X.
Now comes Linux (use Partition druid on the install CD):
-first create a "boot loader" -partition (usuall a couple of MB's)
-then create a swap space (256 or 512 MB)
-Then the mount point "/", using up the rest of the partition reserved for linux.
I only reason why I install YDL on the FIRST 6 GB of my drive, is for ease of use of the Boot-loader. The problem is if you or someone else uses OS X-Startup Disk, you write that info in PRAM, disabling the Boot-loader. If the loader IS NOT on the first partition, you will have to manually change the open firmware to be able to use it again....
If it IS on the very first partition, you only need to zapp the PRAM, et voila! Much easier.
BTW. If you intend to only install Linux on your HD, well let the installer do it for you, automatically.
I usually partiton my drive knowing what I'm going to install in this way:
First 6 or so GB reserved for YDL
Rest for OS X (+ maybe a Data partition).
I use the disk utility of OS X install CD.
Then I install OS X.
Now comes Linux (use Partition druid on the install CD):
-first create a "boot loader" -partition (usuall a couple of MB's)
-then create a swap space (256 or 512 MB)
-Then the mount point "/", using up the rest of the partition reserved for linux.
I only reason why I install YDL on the FIRST 6 GB of my drive, is for ease of use of the Boot-loader. The problem is if you or someone else uses OS X-Startup Disk, you write that info in PRAM, disabling the Boot-loader. If the loader IS NOT on the first partition, you will have to manually change the open firmware to be able to use it again....
If it IS on the very first partition, you only need to zapp the PRAM, et voila! Much easier.
BTW. If you intend to only install Linux on your HD, well let the installer do it for you, automatically.
I have just finished an experiment with YDL 3.0 - installed on a DP 1.25GHz tower. I was so excited about trying something new something different - than bam! a letdown.
Don't understand me wrong, YDL was super easy to install, and it worked flawlessly, it was fast etc. But it reminded me so much of windows.... It is a thousand times more stable than windows, but trying to make my AE card work brought back memories of trying to make modems, video cards, etc. work on Windows. I saw IRQs, and DMAs, I missed photoshop and illustrator (gimp is blah at best, no CMYK support) and I was like: "f**k this!"
Formatted hard drive, and back to OSX. Bliss. Of course I am biased, because I don't do any programming, or server kind of things - all my programs are on OSX. Plus the interface was driving me nuts - GIMP littered my screen with half a dozen little windows, the media player was hella confusing... The advantage of the open source community is definitely in the underlying technologies, but the unified and well thought out GUI is missing because 1 million users will have 1 million ways of interpreting the GUI. Which is a good thing from a personal freedom standpoint, but maddening from a user's view, who just wants an intuitive interface.
My experience was still good: easy install, fast, stable operating system. But the inability to get certain aspects of the hardware working (because I am a Linux n00b), inconsistencies of the GUI, lack of programs for my field of work, has made me abandon it as a workstatioin.
If I had an older Mac, collecting dust because it will only run OS9 well enough, YDL would be my first choice to install as a server, and use the comp again.
Don't understand me wrong, YDL was super easy to install, and it worked flawlessly, it was fast etc. But it reminded me so much of windows.... It is a thousand times more stable than windows, but trying to make my AE card work brought back memories of trying to make modems, video cards, etc. work on Windows. I saw IRQs, and DMAs, I missed photoshop and illustrator (gimp is blah at best, no CMYK support) and I was like: "f**k this!"
Formatted hard drive, and back to OSX. Bliss. Of course I am biased, because I don't do any programming, or server kind of things - all my programs are on OSX. Plus the interface was driving me nuts - GIMP littered my screen with half a dozen little windows, the media player was hella confusing... The advantage of the open source community is definitely in the underlying technologies, but the unified and well thought out GUI is missing because 1 million users will have 1 million ways of interpreting the GUI. Which is a good thing from a personal freedom standpoint, but maddening from a user's view, who just wants an intuitive interface.
My experience was still good: easy install, fast, stable operating system. But the inability to get certain aspects of the hardware working (because I am a Linux n00b), inconsistencies of the GUI, lack of programs for my field of work, has made me abandon it as a workstatioin.
If I had an older Mac, collecting dust because it will only run OS9 well enough, YDL would be my first choice to install as a server, and use the comp again.
Well spoken, zarathustra
I have also actually haven't seen any reason to "must use" Linux, tnx to OS X!
Still it's fun to play with. And the idea of being able to know that OS X the only OS you'll ever need
I have also actually haven't seen any reason to "must use" Linux, tnx to OS X!
Still it's fun to play with. And the idea of being able to know that OS X the only OS you'll ever need
i was tempted to try out linux just so i could play half life, cause i knew they had a port, and they could also run it under wine. then i was reading the help files available online, and it said you had to have a x86 based proc. dang. part of me was hoping, just hoping, that there would be some way to play counter-strike on my mac after all...
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