[Gllug] Saturday: anyone fancy installing Linux on an ibook?

[Sunny Chan]

Hi John,

NorthLondon John wrote:

> Won't be at the Gllug meet, and haven't installed linux on an ibook 
> before, but I can answer your last question.
> No, unfortunately, you have to reformat your entire hd, OSX can't be 
> preserved, HFS+ partitions can't be resized.
> Also, if yours is one of the new g4 ibooks, do a google to see if there 
> are drivers for the graphics card yet - last I heard, this was the main 
> obstacle to a full install.
> And please let me know how you get on - I have a g4 iBook and will 
> probably put linux on it at some point.

Well I have picked up a bargin - so it's only a G3 ibook so I am afraid 
can't have you with the G4 issues... :-(

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