On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:59:17PM -0500, John Hughes wrote:
Hey all,
I am going to be embarking on switching to Debppc from YDl and have a few
questions I want to clarify:
Deb instructions specify a 800k boot-strap partition as the absolute first
partition on the harddrive, yet YDL specifies a 10mb(admited overkill) boot
strap partition as first partition _after_ Mac OS partitions. Since they both
use Yaboot, wont the partition structure from the existing YDL install work?
If not, I was not aware you could put something like OSX on first and still
be able to leave a tiny partition unaffected at the beginging of the disc for
use as a boot strap partition. Could someone clarify this for me? Or point me
at a better install reference than:
Yes, it will work, until you have problems. Placing it in the recommended
order will cause it to be default if MacOS screws something up on you.
You can use the r command in mac-fdisk to put it wherever you want; it's
not physical order that counts just order in the partition map.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install
Check my .sig for the much-updated woody version.
Having just checked the Yaboot how to, it would seem the later is correct and
that it need only be the first of the linux partitions, and not the first
of the whole disk.
Yaboot howto says the bootstrap only takes up 800K, but doesnt say one way or
another that the partition need be a set size. So I guess this comes down to
a single question:
is there a size limitation to the boot-strap partition? Since mine, for YDL,
already exists, but is bigger than 800K, will it still be ok to use with
Debian?
Yes, it will not break anything just be wasted space.
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