[Gllug] Installing Linux on a Mac Mini - boot sequence

[John Winters]

Matthew King wrote:
[snip]
> It has OS X (hda5) and Debian (hda6/8), with space for OS 9 (hda3)
> should I want to experience some extreme pain later. You'll notice
> there's an Apple_Bootstrap and Apple_Boot. I've no idea why there are
> two and I don't know why hda7 needs to be nearly 250MB (amusingly, it's
> exactly 256000512 bytes), but if you want them as images I can send them
> to you. The big one doesn't compress much.

Thanks, but the boot configuration of the PowerPC Macs seems to be quite
different from the Intel Macs.  I've installed Linux on a PowerPC one
before, but this is my first attempt on Intel.  I don't think the
PowerPC boot partitions would help.

My problem is I assumed that as it was Intel it would be just like a PC.
 Foolish me.  I'm still hunting for information.

Cheers,
John

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