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by **Steve B** » Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:24:23

I've had one of the iBooks with the 14" screen for a few months, but
decided to rebuild it and split the hard drive between OS X 10.2 and
Linux. I'm very familiar with PC and Linux, but not Mac's. From what
I've read it appears YDL will give me the best device support out of
the box. So my only area of concern is dual boot and slicing up the
disk.

Questions...

Does it matter which OS I put on first.

Will the YDL installer setup the dual boot for me if OS X is already
present.

Any comments on slicing up the disk. I was thinking of going simple
and just swap and root.

TIA
Steve Barnette

by **Bernard mentin** » Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:14:50

Hi Steve,

see below:

> I've had one of the iBooks with the 14" screen for a few months, but
> decided to rebuild it and split the hard drive between OS X 10.2 and
> Linux. I'm very familiar with PC and Linux, but not Mac's. From what
> I've read it appears YDL will give me the best device support out of
> the box. So my only area of concern is dual boot and slicing up the
> disk.

> Questions...

> Does it matter which OS I put on first.

Better to install OS X first on a partition. Important to leave the rest
unused. i.e do not partition the rest for Linux, just leave it "un-used"
Then intstall YDL

Quote:
> Will the YDL installer setup the dual boot for me if OS X is already
> present.

Yes, it will sort it all out. I have OS 9, OS X and YDL (installed YDL last)

Quote:> Any comments on slicing up the disk. I was thinking of going simple
> and just swap and root.

Works for me.

Cheers,
Bernie

Quote:> TIA
> Steve Barnette

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