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- Your Mac's Specs
- a HOT SMOKIN' iBook G3, 700mhz 640 megs, 80gb drive.
I inherited an iBook G3 (700mhz, 640 megs, 80 gig HD)
It came with Tiger pre-installed, which I have messed with. Being primarily a WinDoze person, I wanted to get more familiar with the Mac - without spending the big bux on a fancy new machine
My thoughts:
1. I wanted to keep the existing Tiger (10.4.11) install as configured.
2. I wanted to do a fresh install of Tiger, and upgrade it to 10.4.11, just to get familiar with the process and see what a "default" clean install looked like. Also I could use this as a "sandbox" without totally borking the original install.
3. I also wanted to try a PPC install of Xbuntu - again for the experience, and to see how Linux performs on the G3.
And. . . . I wanted to do all three at the same time.
What I did:
1. Backed up the original install to a .dmg file using SuperDuper.
2. Removed the original 30 gig HD and replaced it with an 80 gig drive, keeping the original drive as a "if all else fails" contingency.
3. Wiped the new drive clean.
4. Partitioned with 5 partitons
(a) #1 - 16 meg for yaboot
(b) #2 - 18 gig for original Tiger install
(c) #3 - 18 gig for new Tiger install
(c) #4 - 30-some odd gigs (what was left over after all the other partitions were sized.) for Xbuntu
(d) #5 - 2 gig for Linux swap space.
All partitioning was done using Disk Utility from the Tiger boot CD.
Partitions 1, 2, and 3, were formatted HPFS+
Partitions 4 and 5 were formatted "Unix" so that I could find them later when I installed Xbuntu Ultimately they were formatted as ext4 and swap.
5. Used Disk Utility to restore the saved .dmg file to partition #2 and verified successful boot of the restored image.
6. Used the Tiger install CD's to do a clean install of Tiger to partition #3, verified successful boot and upgraded to 10.4.11. Also verified the ability to switch boot volumes successfully.
7 Installed Xbuntu to partitions #4 and #5, and allowed it to install yaboot to partition #1.
Result:
Yaboot allows me to boot ONE of the Mac partitions, or the Xbuntu partition. Depending on how I tweak the yaboot.conf file in Xbuntu, I can configure it to boot one or the other Mac partitions, but not both. If I put two "macosx=" lines in the yaboot.conf, the configuration program picks the first one it finds and uses that one only.
What I would like to do:
Either by configuring yaboot correctly - or by use of another boot utility - be able to choose any one of the three operating systems at boot time.
Viz.,
The boot menu would be something like this:
1. Old Tiger
2. New Tiger
3. Xbuntu
Has anyone tried this?
Does anyone have any ideas? Or am I just outta my mind. . . .
Jim (JR)
It came with Tiger pre-installed, which I have messed with. Being primarily a WinDoze person, I wanted to get more familiar with the Mac - without spending the big bux on a fancy new machine
My thoughts:
1. I wanted to keep the existing Tiger (10.4.11) install as configured.
2. I wanted to do a fresh install of Tiger, and upgrade it to 10.4.11, just to get familiar with the process and see what a "default" clean install looked like. Also I could use this as a "sandbox" without totally borking the original install.
3. I also wanted to try a PPC install of Xbuntu - again for the experience, and to see how Linux performs on the G3.
And. . . . I wanted to do all three at the same time.
What I did:
1. Backed up the original install to a .dmg file using SuperDuper.
2. Removed the original 30 gig HD and replaced it with an 80 gig drive, keeping the original drive as a "if all else fails" contingency.
3. Wiped the new drive clean.
4. Partitioned with 5 partitons
(a) #1 - 16 meg for yaboot
(b) #2 - 18 gig for original Tiger install
(c) #3 - 18 gig for new Tiger install
(c) #4 - 30-some odd gigs (what was left over after all the other partitions were sized.) for Xbuntu
(d) #5 - 2 gig for Linux swap space.
All partitioning was done using Disk Utility from the Tiger boot CD.
Partitions 1, 2, and 3, were formatted HPFS+
Partitions 4 and 5 were formatted "Unix" so that I could find them later when I installed Xbuntu Ultimately they were formatted as ext4 and swap.
5. Used Disk Utility to restore the saved .dmg file to partition #2 and verified successful boot of the restored image.
6. Used the Tiger install CD's to do a clean install of Tiger to partition #3, verified successful boot and upgraded to 10.4.11. Also verified the ability to switch boot volumes successfully.
7 Installed Xbuntu to partitions #4 and #5, and allowed it to install yaboot to partition #1.
Result:
Yaboot allows me to boot ONE of the Mac partitions, or the Xbuntu partition. Depending on how I tweak the yaboot.conf file in Xbuntu, I can configure it to boot one or the other Mac partitions, but not both. If I put two "macosx=" lines in the yaboot.conf, the configuration program picks the first one it finds and uses that one only.
What I would like to do:
Either by configuring yaboot correctly - or by use of another boot utility - be able to choose any one of the three operating systems at boot time.
Viz.,
The boot menu would be something like this:
1. Old Tiger
2. New Tiger
3. Xbuntu
Has anyone tried this?
Does anyone have any ideas? Or am I just outta my mind. . . .
Jim (JR)