[wellylug] PPC Linux Mandrake on a G4 Tower

[Chris]

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 08:16, mangee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> About to embark on a voyage of discovery with Linux Mandrake PPC and a 
> Apple G4 Tower.  First challenge is (semi)non destructive hard drive 
> partitioning.  Probably going to use DiskDrake (part of the  MDK 
> installer).  Has any one on the list tried this with easy success?  

No but I have a G3 in the corner awaiting similar treatment with
YellowDog. It has an IDE HDD so I was planning of throwing a spare 10G
in and avoid the repartitioning saga - not that there is anything of
value mind you.

>  From what I hear it can be quite fun getting the initial installation 
> steps like partitioning working in with dual- (or multi-) booting of 
> Mac OS X / OS 9...
> Sorry - yet to see the system - so no more details then this.

I think YellowDog has a secondary loader in the fashon of LoadLin

hth

C