[CLUE-Tech] OldWorld G3 help

[Joe Linux]

All I know is I've seen some version of SuSE running on a Power Mac.  It 
was pretty cool in that it looked just like SuSE running on my PC at the 
time.

Francis Maier wrote:

>I'd like to install Debian Woody on my OldWorld PowerMac -- a beige
>desktop G3/300 with 768 meg RAM, which I upgraded with an XLR8 ZIF to a
>G4/500.  
>
>I'd like to run OSX and OS 9 on the same hard drive as Linux.  You Mac
>folks will remember that, with the beige G3s, OSX must be installed in
>the first partition of the hard drive, and that first partition must be
>less than 8 gigs in size.
>
>My hard drive is EIDE, and about 28 gigs.  Using OSX Disk Utility, I
>created a first partition of 7.9 gigs in HFS+ for OSX; a second
>partition of 11 gigs in HFS+ for OS9; a third, small partition of just
>32 megs in HFS to run BootX; then a fourth Swap partition of 256 megs in
>UFS; and finally a fifth Root partition of about 10 gigs in UFS.
>
>Debian begins to install fine, but then can't find or create any Linux
>partitions.  I belatedly discovered that using Apple Disk Utility for
>partitioning is a bad idea, and Debian will apparently not recognize UFS
>partitions -- or at least those created by OSX.
>
>Is there any way I can make Debian work now without wiping my hard drive
>and starting again?  Alternately, what partitioning scheme and tool
>should I use?  Am I going about this correctly?  Is having all three OSs
>on my beige G3 even possible?  Thanks for any help.   
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