Re: install MacOSX after Debian GNU/Linux
On Fre, 2002-11-01 at 19:29, brett@kavi.com wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:56:49PM +0100, Soeren Dam wrote:
> > Has anyone experience installing MacOS X after Debian GNU/Linux ?
> > I am running a dualboot setup on a iMac with debian woody and MacOS 9.2
>
> Should be easy enough - the main reason to install MacOS first is to
> make sure you have a small yaboot partition at the beginning of the
> drive. You obviously already have this if your booting to Linux. Just
> install OSX as normal, and use openfirmware to boot back into linux,
> then configure your yaboot.conf appropriately and re-run ybin.
Beware that OS X may do more or less nasty things during installation,
like the partition reordering Eric mentioned, but I've also seen it
abuse the yaboot partition to store temporary files, and then ybin would
fail because the partition was full. Not fatal, but annoying.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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