Can You Install Linux on Mac HFS+ Filesystems?

Stu asks: "I've been thinking about giving my faithful old PowerMac 7600/120 a little boost, and also thought it would be nice to give Linux a go, especially to try out the GIMP as an alternative to Photoshop. I've noticed over the past year or so quite a lot of distibutions have popped up which install in an MSDOS partition and can be launched from within Win95/98 or MSDOS, like WinLinux and many others. I'm shying away from repartitioning my HD and installing LinuxPPC as of now, but I'd like to kinda dip my toes in the water before I take the full plunge, so my question is: Does anything similar to WinLinux and those other distros exist for the PowerPC platform, i.e. can install in an HFS+ partition alongside MacOS?"

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[Smitty825]

Also, I read something I vaguely remember on /. before about the ability to make an exact replica of a disk image of a Macintosh over a network, very very easily. Anyone have any pointers?

A good way to do this would be to use the chooser to mount the remote hard drive you want to save the disk image to, then use the program Disk Copy that ships on all MacOS's since like 7.5 or something like that. Just follow the simple instructions, and make sure to save it to the network drive, and you're all set!