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Dual Boot NetBSD And MacOS On An iMac

Posted by timothy on from the making-life-less-dangerous dept.

camateg writes: "I've yet to find news of someone who has done this with a single hard disk, but I'm sure someone has. However, I seem to be the first to make a web page about it having done it, correct me if I'm wrong. This page is just a small tuturial I came up with to describe how I *finally* got things working. No netboot, no ofwboot.xcf on CD, etc. Yeah, I should probably include yaboot to make it complete..."

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  1. Having stopped short of the summit, I salute you. by toddpw · · Score: 2, Informative

    "leia" (the iMac that built NetBSD/macppc 1.4.2) has had its HD divided into MacOS and NetBSD areas for quite some time, but I never did figure out how to run ofwboot from HFS. I just kept netbooting ofwboot and entering the local path to the kernel.

    My hat is off to you, sir.

  2. You know, there's an easier way... by Dimwit · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...to dual-boot MacOS and BSD. It's called MacOS X.

    --
    ...but it's being eaten...by some...Linux or something...
  3. Re:On an iMac? by trash+eighty · · Score: 4, Informative

    because it can be done and its fun to try.

    you're on slashdot, you shouldn't need any more reason. in any point OSX is not exactly ultra fast on a G3 box