On 17 Apr 2001 16:29:13 -0700, David N. Welton wrote: > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > no 800K not 32MB. 32MB is a rediculous and absurd waste of space. > > out of 800K less then 100 are actually used for yaboot/ofboot. (but > > HFS requires a minimum of 800K) > > If you happen to have any, ahem, other operating systems, that uses, > say, HFS+, which linux doesn't handle well right now (afaik), you can > use this partition not only as a bootstrap, but also as a place to > exchange files between Linux, and the other OS.
Watch out what you say, or the Boot-Cop Ethan will get on your back quickly. Such partitions should only hold yaboot and yaboot.conf (and the eventual OF boot-script iirc). Such partition should never be mounted under MacOS, or modified by hand. Use ybin to modify it. Don't put any kernels there. (the Apple_Bootstrap partition is not visible from MacOS anyway). And to those who will tell me that you can't modify it if you can't boot Linux, I will answer that they should have a Boot CD handy, or even a second machine they can use as a Netboot Server (well, how did you install the system in the first place ?) The only time I regretted that was when I had my potato install CD stolen and I rm-rf'ed (conscioulsy) my /dev to use devfs. Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
