Ok, I've been reading the list archives all day and I'm at least a little more familiar with the process, but still am not certain.
I've recently acquired a G4 through work. It's got a zip disk and 2 18GB scsi disks. Right now MacOS 9 is on disk 1, and disk 2 is empty. I'd like to have one disk for MacOS and the other for Debian. My question is, do I need to blow away the first drive in order to set up the bootstrap partition, or can I do it on the second drive, and then use the mac control panel to tell it to boot off the second drive? Or do I need to wipe the first drive, then create a bootstrap partition, then install macos, then install debian on the second drive? The machine is fairly pristine, and I have the MacOS 9 install disk. I also have a potato CD that I made today from yesterday's archive, but it is not bootable (I forgot to have hfsutils installed). What would be the recommended course of action here? I really have no preference what OS goes on what disk. This is my first real stab at installing a dual-boot machine on a platform other than i386, so I may be unaware of the capabilities of the mac hardware. Advice/Suggestions/etc appreciated. Thanks, Brian -- Brian Almeida | http://www.debian.org/~bma Debian Developer | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Systems Engineer @ Winstar | [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GPG public keys | finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
