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| 22:37.02 | rryoumaa | hi, i have a PowerBook G4 15". i am have used debian for years, but not on a mac and i know nothing about macs or what i can expect. can i fairly unobtrusively run debian on this box? |
| 22:37.47 | rryoumaa | i looked at the debian ppc web pages and the yaboot howto, but i haven't been able to figure out hte answer from them |
| 22:43.07 | pahartik | rryoumaa: You want to know whether one can still boot "MacOS X" after installing "Debian GNU/Linux"? |
| 22:43.56 | rryoumaa | pahartik: yeah, i'd like to know what the options are |
| 22:45.56 | pahartik | rryoumaa: For example, one can hold <Shift> after powering up and OpenFirmware presents menu of bootable systems |
| 22:46.32 | rryoumaa | that sounds nice. can this be done without reformatting the disk? |
| 22:46.47 | rryoumaa | btw, i am low on disk space, but i'm guessing that's not relevant |
| 22:50.25 | pahartik | rryoumaa: Linux should have partition for "/", "/boot/" and "/boot/bootstrap/" |
| 22:51.04 | rryoumaa | ah, so i would require an external disk to move stuff to before repartitioning then? |
| 22:51.10 | pahartik | rryoumaa: They can be created if block device has unused space |
| 22:51.36 | rryoumaa | 19G available |
| 22:51.45 | rryoumaa | (but maybe a lot of fragmentation, dunno) |
| 22:53.46 | pahartik | rryoumaa: Unused space outside filesystem... |
| 22:55.15 | rryoumaa | ah i was afraid of that |
| 22:55.41 | rryoumaa | what if i just ran some kind of live cd, could i remove the live cd after booting? |
| 22:55.56 | rryoumaa | (and symlink those dirs or something) |
| 22:58.55 | rryoumaa | "Shortly, you may also have the option of running Debian within a Darwin system." -- i presume this isn't an option |
| 23:01.51 | rryoumaa | ah, there's no livecd for ppc on http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/current/ |