On 22 March 2010 22:10, Jeroen Diederen <jjhdiede...@zonnet.nl> wrote: > >>On 03/22/2010 08:56 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: >>> powerpc machines do boot from vfat, see here for example: >>> http://sowerbutts.com/linux-mac-mini/#introduction >> >>i couldn't find any information about if powerpcs can boot from fat, nor >>that they can't, oiow, it doesn't say anything about booting from fat >>partitions. am i missing something here? >> > > I think you are probably right, he uses the vfat partition as a > partition to exchange files from OSX to linux and vice versa. He does > not boot off a vfat partition...sorry for the misunderstanding. I also > never heard about booting from vfat for powerpc.
On the other hand, I would think you could put a HFS partition on either a CD or an USB stick and boot from it but I don't have an ancient Mac to try it on. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/a5d587fb1003221424t7e9f8878h42a4d6f6e7254...@mail.gmail.com
