I don't have any experience with dynamically repartioning, I've always
just either backed up and reinstalled, or thrown another hard drive in.
I haven't tried Gentoo, but I've tried a number of other
distributions.
SuSE: weird instabilities with a recent X86 distro (2.4 kernel 7.1?)
on a couple of machines. I feel a bit burned.
Mandrake: Freshest big PPC version out. An older version had a
misconfigured log-rotate that created a *bunch* of tiny
files... (I actually ran out of ext2fs inodes!) The new
X86 distribution (8.2) is very pretty, and on my home PC
and a disk server I just built. X86 at least comes with
OpenOffice, which is nice.
linuxppc: I tried installing on a couple of G3 powerbooks (Pismo and
Lombard?). Both times the video wasn't yet supported.
That was a year or so ago the last time.
In my opinion, just about the most trouble-free distro I've used-- for
any architecture-- has been Yellow Dog. I've put it on one of my
personal work computers, a dedicated dvd-ram writing box, a log server
(a 4400 that's been up nearly a year-- one process shows about a month's
cpu time!) and one of the powerbooks mentioned above.
It's really a sweet distribution. http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
There was a slashdot thread when Mandrake's PPC version came out a
few days ago: http://slashdot.org/apple/02/04/23/1532254.shtml
To boot from a cd, press the 'c' key while booting.
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Dana Rottach
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"hope and the anchor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In regards to this, I'm planning on installing one of the PPC linux distros
> on my 3400c. I would ideally like to repartition my disk and give both
> MacOS9 and Linux (i'm leaning towards Gentoo (http://gentoo.org) or maybe
> also SuSE PPC (http://suse.com) but I haven't made a concrete decision yet;
> any advice, or pros/cons w/r/t specific distros and the 3400c would be
> appreciated).
>
> But my more immediate question is: How would I go about repartitioning?
> Also, do apples boot off CD drives/floppy drives automatically?
>
> Hope
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