Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Gary wrote:

> You wrote:
> > Is there a way to install Debian without any OS installed?  From  
> > all I've read, it seems like
> > MacOSX needs to be installed before Debian can be installed.  Is  
> > this still true?'
>
> Only if you plan on multi-booting between OS X and Debian. If you're
> only running Debian then mac-fdisk will partition your drive properly
> for yaboot to work with it. I don't remember having this issue with
> stable but the current testing builds have an issue where they only
> create an 800 K New World boot partition when it actually needs to be
> 800 Mb.
>
> -Gary

I don't think this is true.  The New World Boot partition (HFS format)  
contains only a minimal amount of stuff.  That stuff may, indeed, have  
grown beyond 800KB but I'd be *very* surprised if it had grown to 800MB.

I've got several PowerMacs running Squeeze and Sid and none of them  
have New World Boot partitions over 1MB in size.

Rick