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Here's the story: I created two partitions on an external harddrive. With ~300 gigs (formatted) to work with I went with one 280 gig (for video) and one 20 gig (for toying around with Linux).
Both are Mac OS Extended (Journald).
I have two questions:
1) I installed OS X 10.4 (from my recovery discs) on the 280 gig partition, then when I went to see if it worked, I rebooted while holding down "T", but all I got was the yellow Firewire logo that blinks around the screen.
I tried reintalling OS X (whiped drive; re-partitioned hard drive). Same issue.
What can I do?
2) As I mentioned earlier, I have the 20 gig partition for Linux. Can anyone recommend a good distro? I used Feather Linux on my Windows box to try it out, and I've used Debian from time to time on a friends PC, but I don't have much extended experience with it (the entire reason I did this).
Both are Mac OS Extended (Journald).
I have two questions:
1) I installed OS X 10.4 (from my recovery discs) on the 280 gig partition, then when I went to see if it worked, I rebooted while holding down "T", but all I got was the yellow Firewire logo that blinks around the screen.
I tried reintalling OS X (whiped drive; re-partitioned hard drive). Same issue.
What can I do?
2) As I mentioned earlier, I have the 20 gig partition for Linux. Can anyone recommend a good distro? I used Feather Linux on my Windows box to try it out, and I've used Debian from time to time on a friends PC, but I don't have much extended experience with it (the entire reason I did this).