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Managed to use pdisk to change the ufs partition to an Apple_HFS partition and then reboot. Finally got the courage to reinitialize the new partition (despite the fear that it would wipe my startup disk partition) and it worked fine. Thanks for the advice Admiral. Also, as suggested I decided...

While I may be wrong, my understanding is that with the core of OSX being essentially BSD Unix that recognizes the HFS+ file system (ie.Darwin), that by running Xfree86 under OSX you should be able to run GNOME or KDE desktop. I plan on at least trying it when I get my copy of OSX. I'd be...

Tried what was suggested, but LinuxPPC1999 doesn't allow booting off the CD the way LinuxPPC200 does! So I tried using pdisk to check the partitions. This works, but there doesn't seem to be a way of just changing the partition type in pdisk, it seems that you have to delete a partition and...

Thanks for the information. Can I combine the scratch partition with the main partition at the same time? I'd prefer having one or a few large partions in HFS+ to having all 8 partitions that I had to make when installing LinuxPPC. I'm concerned that if I combine the ufs partitions that I...

I installed LinuxPPC1999 on my desktop beige G3/233 on unix partitions. Is there a simple way of changing the partitions so that I can install OSX onto it without reformating the entire disk? Can I use the scratch partition as a scratch partition in OSX (does it even neen one?). Thanks for...