[svlug] Multiple Linux Systems, Macintosh: FC4 on Internal Drive and OS-X on External?

[mweisler]

Actually, this is a Mac I've owned for some years. Things are going so well 
with our Linux involvement that we're migrating to Linux but I'd like to keep 
that one firewire drive OS-X for a while. There's some data on it that we 
need. 

I know I can boot from firewire as we've done that for years; but Mac won't 
boot from USB-connected drives.

I just don't want to get going with Linux on the Mac, then one day boot OS-X 
from the firewire external and have data clobbered.

...and if I were shopping for a new laptop this is what it would be, if I 
could afford one: http://www.dynamism.com/x50

I guess the best approach for me is to just set aside my "production" external 
firewire drive with OS-X on it, install a PPC Linux on the PowerBook, and 
then use an experimental external firewire drive with OS-X on it and see what 
happens (before investing much time or putting good data to risk).

Thanks to all who responded.
Mark



On Thursday 25 August 2005 12:55, David N. Welton wrote:
> mark weisler wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > Just wondering about the feasibility of the above scenario.
> > I have a PowerBook that I want to evolve to Linux. What I would like to
> > do is install the PPC version of a Linux distro (say FC4) on the internal
> > drive and yet sometimes boot from my external firewire drive which has my
> > "production" OS-X and data on it. (I now boot routinely from the external
> > drive in my household stationary mode.)
>
> Debian runs great on my Tibook, although I have never really confronted
> the dual boot issue seriously (I pretty much forgot about MacOS X).
> You'd want to check and see if you can do the firewire boot, which might
> be a bit tricky...
>
> At the risk of starting a flamewar, though, at this point, why buy a mac
> if they're just going Intel?  Sure they're still nice machines, but...
> that's a lot of extra money.  Perhaps it's best to just get another
> machine to run Linux on.

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