On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:17:03 -0600, Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you dual boot macs?
Yes.
} eric {$mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda
/dev/hda
# type name length base
( size ) system
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 64
(800.0k) NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda3 Apple_HFS OSX 14680064 @ 1664
( 7.0G) HFS
/dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 2097152 @
14681728 ( 1.0G) Linux swap
/dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 61361280 @
16778880 ( 29.3G) Linux native
Block size=512, Number of Blocks=78140160
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
>
> One big difference between OSX and free software is that a friend of mine
> installed OSX without knowing his root password. I don't know much more than
> that, but it seemed significant.
You can run osx on the framebuffer and or on X(mac on
linux[http://maconlinux.org/]) from within the linux install.
>
> On Friday 21 January 2005 11:57 am, Jeffrey Lee wrote:
> > I see people that take os x off of their macs and put gentoo or some
> > other version of linux and i cant understand why.
Gentoo has a very flexible package build and management system which
is written almost completely in python.
So my reason is because macs, linux, gentoo, and python rock!
>> I guess there are benefits?
1. Its not windows
2. It works.(only non airport extreme)
3. Because I can
