on 13/02/2002 22:34, Chris Tillman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <snip>
>> >> Ah, thanks. I still have a few questions remaining... will I need to >> download the entire Debian CD or can I get away with getting some files into >> MacOS through sneakernet? Second, my first intent was to dual-boot OS X with >> Debian, is this somehow feasible or do I have to keep OS 9 around? I'm still >> somewhat unclear on the boot-through-BootX thing. Ideally I'd like to >> eliminate the need for OS 9 entirely. > > I don't know if you can use BootX from OSX. At least, I haven't heard > of anyone who's done that. If you have an exchange partition for data > going between OS's, it would be best to make it HFS. Also, I'm not > sure but I believe OSX depends on OS9 for its ability to run pre-OSX > apps; you might be giving that up. correct about OS X and OS 9. i have a friend who fairly recently installed OS X, and he has to do just that. eric > > Also, although sometimes it's challenging, you can have a primitive > dual-boot capability using quik once you've installed Linux. If that > works, you could safely lose BootX.
