FC4 vs. MacMini (PowerPC)

[Colin Charles]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 07:55 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> I'd like to run FC4 on a MacMini, but can't get there from here.
> FC4t1 was dead-on-arrival because the install CD/DVD would not boot
> ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151234 ).

Try FC4t2. I think the CD boots. Otherwise do it via nfs and boot.iso

> Now FC4t2 cannot be trusted to partition the harddrive
> ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154479 ).

That's just the tool, fdisk not reporting it. Linux/ppc distros tend to
include pdisk actually

The partitioning tool actually "just works". Try "parted /dev/hda print"

> Multibooting Mac OS X is a requirement, but neither DiskDruid
> nor fdisk recognizes the existing partitions as shipped by Apple
> [Ubuntu-5.04 fdisk does] so I'm very leery.

Well, it would help if you had a free partition. Currently you don't. We
don't resize hfs+ partitions for you

> If anyone has set up FC4t2 successfully to multiboot with Mac OS X,
> (using no external drives or additional Mac hardware) then
> please share your method and experiences.  Thanks.

http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.html

I just set it up yesterday and my dual-boot experience works. Save for
the fact that yaboot.conf needs macosx=/dev/hdaX in it
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