[NTLUG:Discuss] Movin' On

[Will Senn]

Robert,

You're a genius. Duh, I have a usb external drive - I didn't even think 
of it. I'll give that a shot and post the results. Now, all I gotta do 
is wait 3-5 days for the iMac, seems like forever... Thanks for the 
keyboard hint and the Mac Addict pointer.

Will


Robert Citek wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, Dec 30, 2004, at 08:48 US/Central, Will Senn wrote:
> 
>> I just ordered an IMac 1.8 G5 with all of the bells and whistles - 20" 
>> LCD, 250GB HD, DVD Burner, Airport wireless nic, bluetooth keyboard 
>> and mouse, etc :) and was wondering if any of y'all do Mac? Yellow 
>> Dog, Open Darwin, etc.... Also, can you dual boot these things?
> 
> 
> One thing I've been wanting to try is to keep OS/X on the internal drive 
> and install Yellow Dog to an external FW drive.  OS/X allows booting 
> from other devices (hold the Option key while booting.)  If you get a 
> chance to try anything out, please let the list know.
> 
> BTW, for more info on other startup shortcuts, open the Finder Help and 
> search for "Shortcuts for starting up" which includes booting OS/X into 
> single user mode.
> 
> Lastly, check out the January 2005 issue of Mac Addict.  Apparently, 
> there's a whole section on using FLOSS for the Mac, including installing 
> fink (Macs wrapper around apt).
> 
> Regards,
> - Robert
> http://www.cwelug.org/downloads
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> 
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