Thus spoke michael hast on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 07:28PM -0500:
> Hey, everybody!
>
> Well, my wife has been wanting a Mac for some time now. Good grief,
> those things are expensive! Well, I didn't want to spring for a new one
> and have her not like it or even be ho-hum about it, so I found her a
> nice, used G4 to play with. Of course, in this household, there will be
> some Linux time on that machine. It comes pre-loaded with OS 10.4 and a
> bunch of Adobe software, but there are no disks with any of that. I
> have an extra little hard drive that would work just fine for a
> Yellowdog install, but I'm wondering if I can set up a dual-boot on it
> between the two hard drives without screwing anything up.
> Do any of you have experience in this area? What I have learned
> from in my Googling is that Yellowdog likes to be on the first partition
> on the first drive. I wonder if I could put the existing drive on the
> other connector on the ribbon cable, re-jumper it as slave, slap the
> other hard drive in, install YDL to it and call it a day. That sounds
> like a really good way to wipe out several hundred dollars worth of
> software to me! Anyway, any insight would be welcomed and cherished.
> Thanks.
These days, I hear Debian is the best choice for Linux on the PPC.
Any particular reason you're going to try YellowDog?
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