Debian on Macintosh
It is not my intention to cause a discussion about platform preferences. I am about to install Woody on a Mac 9500 with a G3 upgrade. I have 3 hd in this unit and I will be using a 4.5GB Wide SCSI hd running off an Adaptec adapter card. I am running Mac OS 9.1 on the primary hd. I have a few questions.
Most of the instructions re Linux on Macintosh recommend that the Mac OS be present on the computer. These instructions seem to be written from the prespective that there is only one hd in the computer and that there will be 2 OS on that hd which will require partitioning to accomodate both OS. So is it really necessary to have the Mac OS on the hd where I plan to install Debian if that hd is dedicated to Linux?
When I install Debian on the 3rd hd will I be able to boot directly into Linux if it is the only OS on the hd? I presume that I could boot the computer from my primary hd and then do a Startup Disk change in the control panel, select Debian and then restart. Or is there another way?
I have looked at other Linux distro and Debian is the only one that seems compatable with Intel computers and Mac OS. As I have one of each I would like to have a common distro between them. Currently I have SuSE on an older ACER laptop and it is the only OS on the computer. As much as I like what I see in SuSE it does not support Mac OS.
Thanks, r.
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