[NTLUG:Discuss] Movin' On

[Rick Cook]

On Thursday 30 December 2004 09:57, Will Senn wrote:
> 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

I have been running Debian-powerpc on various Mac's since 1997, starting 
with an LC III. My current machine is a Dual 1.0 Ghz G4. For most of any 
"MacOS X" purposes I have, I use Mac-on-Linux - an open source 
"equivalent" to VMware on x86. Much like VMware, it runs a virtual 
machine that can use a separate partition or a "virtual" partition.

In terms of booting, my machine is set up to allow booting from "linux", 
MacOS X, CD/DVD, or OpenFirmware. If you select Linux, then I have the 
option of booting Debian or Yellowdog (and, soon, Mandrake).


Rick Cook