On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 21:20 -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote: > I am new to debian on ppc so forgive me if this is a stupid question. > > I would like to have a dual boot system on a g4 powerbook (alu). > During the install, do I need to create the Apple_Bootstrap partition > for yaboot manually, or is it automatic (even if I choose manual > partitioning)? > > Is there an advantage to making it bigger than 820k? I seem to have > 130 gb of space between the partition table (#1, 32k) and the OS X > partition. If I make the bootstrap partition, say, 1 megabyte, is it > ok to use the rest as secondary swap or something? > > Another thing: should I use the rc2 image from > > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/rc2/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso > > or a daily image from > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/ > > or something completely different? > > Thanks, > > Tamas > >
IIRC, you will need to create the bootstrap partition if you choose manual partitioning. Automatic partitioning will do that for you and it allocates 1MB for the partition. I never understood what that partition did and so I've left it at that. I installed Debian on my Powerbook 12" 1.33 GHz using the rc2 installed. Everything worked flawlessly. I'm just a little wary with daily builds. Never know how stable they are :-) Regards, Wee-Jin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
