Linux and an Apple Mac Laptop...

[suicidal_monkey]

Now I'm getting carried away, but anyway

Has anyone ever had experience with re-partitioning a mac hard drive and putting in a dual-boot system between Linux and Mac OS 9? It's a 400MHz G3 powerbook with a ~9Gb hard drive. Mac software is harder to come by than the pc equivalent, so I thought I might have a go at putting linux on half the hard drive, although I would like to do it without breaking the current mac OS install.

 :roll:

[Gandalf]

not a laptop, but I've sucessfully installed it on a second hd on a G3.

I even have a boxed version of suse 6.4 for PPC. It does say PowerBook G3 on the side as supported, so all you need to work out is the dual boot

[suicidal_monkey]

Well, I did a browse and found some linux forums and stuff. I reckon I can get mandrake 8.2 for mac. Theres other installs, but seeing as I'm using 9.0 it'd be easier to stick with the one distro type. Unfortuanately it'll mean wiping the harddrive and installing the mac OS into 3 or 4 Gb and then installing linux in most of the rest. The real challenge will be persuading my mum to let me destroy all the info on the mac  :roll:

[DarkAngel]

just say u got a virus on it and it wiped all the data shell let you reformat it then  :wicked:

[suicidal_monkey]

she might buy it. But then she's heard all those stories from when I was "fixing" pc's and the like before I went to uni :roll:

[Stryker]

I've heard yellowdog linux is good on mac..... not used it tho.