Is it possible to have a LinuxPPC distribution on a separate disk
partition of a Power PCI Macintosh and have the other partition installed
with MacOS 7.6 and boot from either of the two partitions?

Please let me know if you have any experience with a similar setup.

Paul van Hagen
email: p.p.h.vanhagen@siep.shell.com

I just installed LinuxPPC Lite on my Power Mac 7500 (it's a PCI machine)
on a 2-gig hard drive.  The drive came formatted as one MacOS volume, and I
simply used Drive Setup to shrink the 2-gig volume to 1 gig.  Then I booted
Linux with BootX, used 'fdisk' to partition the remainder of the drive, and
finished the install.

BootX is great, it's like Lilo on the x86 side.  I can boot straight into
Linux or into MacOS 8 (the default).  It takes a bit of fiddling to set it
up so it boots from the correct partition.  Also, you can't use an HFS+
volume, only the old HFS volumes and A/UX volumes.

I think BootX grants this wish!

 - Nickster (nick@bpsi.net)