Actually, I don't know of any way to do that either! :-) I had a bad crash about two weeks ago when I was installing Classic from the Apple CDs, I couldn't get anything to work right, so I had to just flat out re-install OSX. I had been wanting to install linux on it again for a while, and took that into account when making the partitions. The easiest way, I think is to use Carbon Copy Cloner, back up to annother disk, partition the orriginal and restore the backup onto the OSX partition. If you're interested (or anyone else), you could come over one evening and I've got an iPod we could do backups to, restore from. Depending on how much stuff you have, the process would probably take about an hour. I'm not letting you do your Gentoo install here though...my wife wouldn't allow that :-)
As for a tutorial, the Gentoo instalation guide ( http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml ) was VERY good, although it still assumes a 2.4 kernel, and so some things aren't *quite* the same, though close enough. There's also a gentoo PPC FAQ ( http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-faq.xml )that gave me instructions for iBook / Mac specific tricks (should read this BEFORE configuring the kernel...trust me) This page ( http://www.desertsol.com/~kevin/ppc/ ) was also fairly helpfull, but rather vague on some points. Of course, all that's assuming that you meant Gentoo when you said "mess arround with linux". Either way, if you want a helping external firewire disk to do your partition, let me know. ~Michael > I would love it if you could write a howto on your process if there is > not already one available. My biggest question is how you were able to > resize your OS X partition without losing data. I have been trying to > find a way to dynamically resize OS X partitions but don't know of any > software that can do it. I would like to mess around with linux on my > iBook but I don't want to trash my OS X installation. > > Thanks, > > Carl > > > > Wow. That was fun, and interesting, and I learned a bunch! > > > > I just wanted to report a successful, functional Gentoo install on my > > iBook. I started some time friday morning, and worked on it whenever I > > was a) home, b) not doing yard work, and c) it wasn't still compiling > > something or other. > > > > I installed the 2.6 kernel, on a ReiserFS partition. I somehow managed > > to configure yaboot without making OS X un-bootable (HFS+ partition), > > and have a "file exchange" partition in HFS for my MP3s, and any other > > files that need to go between the two systems. > > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
