Dual boot - MacOS / Debian
Ok, I've been reading the list archives all day and I'm at least a little
more familiar with the process, but still am not certain.
I've recently acquired a G4 through work. It's got a zip disk and 2 18GB scsi
disks. Right now MacOS 9 is on disk 1, and disk 2 is empty. I'd like to have
one disk for MacOS and the other for Debian. My question is, do I need to blow
away the first drive in order to set up the bootstrap partition, or can I do it
on the second drive, and then use the mac control panel to tell it to boot off
the second drive? Or do I need to wipe the first drive, then create a
bootstrap partition, then install macos, then install debian on the second
drive? The machine is fairly pristine, and I have the MacOS 9 install disk. I
also have a potato CD that I made today from yesterday's archive, but it is not
bootable (I forgot to have hfsutils installed). What would be the recommended
course of action here? I really have no preference what OS goes on what disk.
This is my first real stab at installing a dual-boot machine on a platform
other than i386, so I may be unaware of the capabilities of the mac hardware.
Advice/Suggestions/etc appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian
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