I have divided the 80 Gigs hard drive (real size is 74.5 GB) into 4 partitions:ģ volumes I have marked as “Free Space” (their filesystem – Format – will be specified during the Linux installation) From here we tell Disk Utility how we want to partition the hard disk. With the installer running, open on the “Installer” menu in the top left of the screen. The Mac Mini will reboot and load the OS X installer from the disc. Run the installer from the disc and, when prompted, hit “restart”. With Mac OS X running, insert the OS X Install Disc 1 that came with the Mac Mini. Step 1 – Back up your HD Step 2 – Partition the Mac Mini HD
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How to install YDL and OSX (if you want to dual-boot Mac OS and Linux) If you are interested in the matter take a look at the TerraSoft site and here or here (in italian -> here). iso file (from the TerraSoft website) and burn it onto a dvd. The Yellow Dog 5 is a Fedora Core, RPM-based distribution.ĭownload the. This distro is free and its iso has 3.6 GB, I chose it because it’s the only one that’s made just for the PowerPC architecture and it seems to have a good support today and for the years to come]. I ended up downloading Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.1 code-named Phoenix (from the TerraSoft website). Linux distributions I’ve considered were Ubuntu, Gentoo, Mandriva and openSUSE. PowerPC Macs with G3 G4 and G5 processors). There are several Linux distributions available for those Macs made before Apple transitioned to Intel processors (i.e. OS X is getting a bit slow at times, that’s why I thought of giving it a try with Linux installing both OS X Tiger and Yellow Dog.
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