On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:44:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: >> BTW: If I find a macos cd somewhere and if I install >> macos on the powermac, can I choose to create a real >> small macos partition so that I just install bootx >> on it? Or does macos grab the complete hd and if >> so is it possible to shrink the partition afterwards?
> macos requires that you erase the entire disk, but it will allow you > to choose the size of the partition you create for it. That would be ok. I'll keep that method as last resort. > before you pollute your system with wasteful macos cruft i would > suggest getting a coff format kernel, copying it to an hfs floppy (dd > if=/dev/zero it first, make sure its totally clean, then hformat -l > boot /dev/fd0, hmount /dev/fd0, hcopy -r vmlinux.coff :, humount.) > then try booting with the floppy in the drive. Can I create this disk with my PC-Style 1.44FDD on my Intel-Debian box? > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ -- Last year, out in California, at a PC users group, there was a demo of smart speech recognition software. Before the demonstrator could begin his demo, a voice called out from the audience: "Format c, return. Yes, return." Damned short demo, it was.
