[gentoo-ppc-user] Partitioning for X/9/Linux

[gentoo-ppc-user] Partitioning for X/9/Linux

[Colin]

I want to install OS X (Tiger with XPostFacto), OS 9.2.2 and Gentoo on 
my Powerbook G3 (Lombard).  Now, I know I need an Apple Bootstrap 
partition, and I'm going to make an HFS+ for OS X, another HFS+ for OS 
9, a partition for Gentoo root, and a swap partition.

In which order should I install these three OSes?  This sounds too 
complicated.  I must be mistaken.  Anyone care to shed some light onto 
this, because this is what I had in mind:

1.  Boot Gentoo CD on my blank hard drive.  Create an Apple bootstrap 
partition.
2.  Boot OS 9 CD.  Install it.
3.  Use XPostFacto to install Tiger.
4.  Install Gentoo.

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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Partitioning for X/9/Linux

[Michael Moore]

Colin wrote:
> I want to install OS X (Tiger with XPostFacto), OS 9.2.2 and Gentoo on 
> my Powerbook G3 (Lombard).  Now, I know I need an Apple Bootstrap 
> partition, and I'm going to make an HFS+ for OS X, another HFS+ for OS 
> 9, a partition for Gentoo root, and a swap partition.
> 
> In which order should I install these three OSes?  This sounds too 
> complicated.  I must be mistaken.  Anyone care to shed some light onto 
> this, because this is what I had in mind:
> 
> 1.  Boot Gentoo CD on my blank hard drive.  Create an Apple bootstrap 
> partition.
> 2.  Boot OS 9 CD.  Install it.
> 3.  Use XPostFacto to install Tiger.
> 4.  Install Gentoo.

You need to make the partitions with an Apple disk. I prefer OSX's 
partition manager

1. Boot OSX installer, partition in three:
	1) Boot strap + swap + Gentoo space (format as "free space" or 
something like that)
	2) OS 9 space
	3) OS X space

2. Once it's partitioned, you can install in any order you want.

n. Install Gentoo - The Gentoo installer will run you through splitting 
up the free space into bootstrap/swap/disk space

Good luck!

Michael Moore


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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Partitioning for X/9/Linux

[Joe McMahon]

On Jul 8, 2005, at 10:25 PM, Michael Moore wrote:
>
> You need to make the partitions with an Apple disk. I prefer OSX's 
> partition manager
>
> 1. Boot OSX installer, partition in three:
> 	1) Boot strap + swap + Gentoo space (format as "free space" or 
> something like that)
> 	2) OS 9 space
> 	3) OS X space
>
> 2. Once it's partitioned, you can install in any order you want.
>
> n. Install Gentoo - The Gentoo installer will run you through 
> splitting up the free space into bootstrap/swap/disk space

I can confirn this: the key is getting the bootstrap and swap 
partitions in place. After that, the relative locations of the 
operating systems themselves don't matter a lot, at least on modern 
machines.

I've also successfully used the Gentoo instructions to do the job, 
partitioning with mac-fdisk, and following pretty much the same 
partition layout. It should also be noted that if you hold down the 
option key during the boot process, all of the bootable partitions will 
show up and you can pick the one you want.

One final thing: there is a limit on the size of the bootable partition 
on a Lombard (it needs to occur within the first 8 GB of you disk). I 
*think* using yaboot in a tiny boot partition will get around this, but 
I don't have a machine of that vintage with a big enough disk to try 
it.

  --- Joe M.

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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Partitioning for X/9/Linux

[Colin]

Joe McMahon wrote:

> One final thing: there is a limit on the size of the bootable 
> partition on a Lombard (it needs to occur within the first 8 GB of you 
> disk). I *think* using yaboot in a tiny boot partition will get around 
> this, but I don't have a machine of that vintage with a big enough 
> disk to try it.
>
Great, I just dropped in a beautiful 100 GB hard drive...  < brag 
topic="HardDriveSpecs">100 GB, 5400 RPM, 16 MB cache... oh yeah! </brag>

Anyway, it shouldn't be a problem.  The 10 GB hard drive that came with 
the computer had one large partition (~9.7 GB) which successfully booted 
Mac OS 9.0.4, so my guess is that any partition should boot just fine.  
The only problems with the Lombard hard drive controller AFAIK are the 
137 GB barrier and the fact that most ATA-6/7 hard drives aren't 
usable.  (Earlier IDE Macs, though, like the Beige G3 and early iMacs 
did have an 8 GB boot code boundary.)

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