[CLUE-Tech] OldWorld G3 help

[Joe Linux]

Well I haven't been able to install SuSE on my PC since 7.1.

Francis Maier wrote:

>Thanks, SuSe is a good product, but its PPC version lags behind its
>intel version.  Suse PPC 7.3 (the latest version) is more than a year
>old and doesn't support the ATI Radeon card and some other important
>functionalities.  I've had equally lousy luck with YellowDog and
>Manndrake.  Debian's my last resort.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Joe Linux
>Sent:	Wed 5/28/2003 6:36 AM
>To:	clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
>Cc:	
>Subject:	Re: [CLUE-Tech] OldWorld G3 help
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>All I know is I've seen some version of SuSE running on a Power Mac.  It
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>was pretty cool in that it looked just like SuSE running on my PC at the
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>time.
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>Francis Maier wrote:
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>>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.  
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>>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.
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>>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
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>>UFS; and finally a fifth Root partition of about 10 gigs in UFS.
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>>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
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>UFS
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>>partitions -- or at least those created by OSX.
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>>Is there any way I can make Debian work now without wiping my hard
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>drive
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>>and starting again?  Alternately, what partitioning scheme and tool
>>should I use?  Am I going about this correctly?  Is having all three
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>OSs
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>>on my beige G3 even possible?  Thanks for any help.   
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