Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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. > that is a very poor idea. if you allow MacOS to mount the bootstrap > partition it **WILL** debless it rendering your system unbootable.
MacOS X doesn't seem to mess with it. > you should use a dedicated small type Apple_Bootstrap partition. if > you know what your doing and like booting manually at the > OpenFirmware prompt every time fine. if not you better follow my > instructions as you will get no sympathy from me otherwise. Probably a good idea in any case:-) -- David N. Welton Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/ Work: http://www.innominate.com/
