> I've stopped using my G3/266 Wallstreet as my daily rig, and I want to
> install a free *NIX on it. ... It
> looks like this machine requires BootX and a Mac OS partition to boot
Linux,
> but that totally ruins my plan -- I didn't particularly want to keep Mac
OS
> around, but if I do, hey, I might as well keep Photoshop and BBEdit
around.
> But the limiting factor? I only have 4 gigs to work with and no
budgetary
> plans to upgrade the drive.
I used to dual-boot a beige G3/266 with a 4GB drive, so it's certainly
possible to keep two fairly complete systems on a drive that size. I
gave Linux 1.5GB and the rest to MacOS, and created a plain HFS (not HFS+)
partition that both systems could access. If it's not your "daily rig,"
4GB should be plenty of room.
> So that brings me to my question ... is there a free *NIX that I can run
> that doesn't require a Mac OS partition and supports all of the hardware
in
> this model?
I'm not 100% sure that you *have* to use BootX with that system. I
think there's some OF fiddling that you can do to boot directly to
Linux, and there are schemes like yaboot that require a bare minimum
MacOS partition, basically enough to get the system going before
passing control to the Linux kernel.
I've seen NetBSD running on a beige G3, so I know it's possible to
completely bypass MacOS on a system of that vintage. If you prefer
Linux, YellowDog or Debian should do the job.
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