[Ghoser777]

So I have my shinny new PB, and I was going to install YDL on a partition and OS X on another and VPC with Windows XP on another. I was reading through the YDL installation guide, and I'm a little concerned about one thing - do I have to have OS 9 installed and bootable for this to work?

I have a newish Powerbook, so I can't boot into OS 9 even if I wanted to (Classic doesn't count), so how would that dual boot between YDL and OS X work, or would it work at all?

My sick dream is to have Windows XP running in hardware emulation ontop of Mac OS X, which in turn would be running in software emulation on top of Linux via MOL. I'm planning on using it to show my students how the same program written in java runs the same on three platforms, and I think this is the coolest way to do that.

Any help is appreciated,
Matt Fahrenbacher

[pwolfe1]

I know from personal experience on a g3 desktop (400mhz) that you can do that. although I used mandrake linux. but os on os on os will work. and you'll be amazed how well the systems run.

[Ghoser777]

Thanks for the confirmation on my dream pwolfe1. Does anyone know how to get a dual boot YDL and OS X to work? Or does everyone have an OS 9 partition?

Matt Fahrenbacher

[pwolfe1]

IMHO, the easiest way would be to start from scratch. I can tell you how to do it with mandrake. You'll like the disk partitioning tool. If you want to have YDL, then modify this to suit what you need. the technique should work with any distro.

use OSX's partition tool, and split the drive in 2 (or 3, depending on how much room you need for apps and what not...or whatever.)install OSX to the first partition of that drive.

after thats installed and updated and perfect, reboot. using your linux cd, boot up and get to the partition tool. Again, if you are not linux savy already, I strongly reccommend mdk's disktool. Its very easy to use and all gui based.

you will see the OSX partition and the other unformatted partition. You may or not see 4 other tiny little chunks for apple at the beginning of the drive. DO NOT TOUCH THESE. On the unformatted drive, install linux in any way you please. there is a multitude of docs out there for this. a google search will get you all you need.

install >Ldistro<.

be careful with any options in the install that pertain to the bootloader. both Mandrake and YDL have rock solid bootloaders that will not blow away OSX.

reboot, select linux, and do like we did before. Install necessary updates, all that stuff.

Then get yourself a copy of MOL (Mac-on-Linux) and install and configure that.

So now, you can boot into linux from power on, run mac-on-linux from there, and inside the VPX OSX you have running, run wine/wineX apps, or a copy of VMware and have XP running on that.

[pwolfe1]

Some helpful links:

www.mandrakeusers.org
www.mandrakeusers.org/tutorials/linkster.php
www.maconlinux.org/
www.yellowdoglinux.com/

[Ghoser777]

THANKS!

Matt Fahrenbacher